Ms Michelle Murphy:

One cannot make every tax change or expenditure increase that people want in a single budget. It has to be done over a period because it has to be done incrementally. If one can show people the end point and how it will be reached, one can bring them along. Until then, however, there will be the sorts of challenge that the Deputy mentioned to Ms Ní Chaithnía, for example, the number of people who do not see the value in the policy change. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs introduced that policy change.