Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am not being pedantic. What I am trying to get at here is that I do not believe that the thing which the Minister describes as an anomaly is an anomaly at all, and nor do most people. Is there evidence within the Department, through correspondence from officials - prior to the Minister announcing this - which says that it has to be addressed as an anomaly. I served as a Minister in this Department and I never heard of it.