John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hear that. The Minister and her predecessor, the Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, said there are always winners and losers. I do not want the result to be that some people benefit by the reversal of the 2012 changes and others are losers. It is a situation I do not want to arise and I do not want to be back here next year, on foot of new changes that have been made, discussing the losers, to use such terminology. The Minister said that hopefully it will happen but it is not rock solid. While the issue is a priority for everyone sitting around this table and for many Members of the Dáil, I am not sure if it is a priority for Government. It is important to have a timeframe built in so that it is not allowed to slip and does not fall down the pecking order of priorities if another emergency crops up in Government. The 42,000 figure is growing month by month. Putting a timeframe on it will show the level of importance the committee gives to the impact it is having on the 42,000 people who are directly impacted and their families. It is essential that there is a timeframe. It would be absolutely brilliant if the report and the Minister's recommendations could be delivered before that but hopefully we will not have to deal with a situation in which there are winners and losers again.