Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand the witnesses cannot comment on the money message and I should not have asked them to but I was just trying to tease out exactly where the costs were. Mr. Cox and Mr. Grace stated there would be awareness and enforcement costs. I do not think those costs would be such that it could prevent a Bill going forward. Some Bills would be way more costly to the State.

I went over the draft scheme of the Minister's Bill. I will refer to a section in it. It was explained earlier that the money for One4All vouchers is secure and held in an escrow account. We will discuss this later. After 12 months there is a cost on the One4All voucher and its value starts to decrease. I think it varies between €1.40 to €3 depending on the amount of the voucher. Mr. Cox and Mr. Grace stated they might look at that. Will they expand on it?