Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is not reflective of the recent controversy because those cases have to go back, in the first instance, to the District Court and then they have to go to the Circuit Court. People who have been affected had to be written to by a date in early April. They do not have to appear in court but that will be dealt with. The question of compensation has clearly not been determined at this point. We have to wait to see how the courts deal with many of these cases before there can be an estimate, if there is compensation, of what the scale of that might be. That is yet to be determined.