John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to make a comment. You saw the paper today which referred to the fact that legislation would be introduced to ensure people would receive their payments and so forth. It is important that you and the Department have a communications strategy in place. You might say it is premature now because neither the convention nor the legislation has been passed, but people are still concerned. Many people have no concern because they have never left the country and their payments will remain, but people who have been abroad for a number of years have concerns. The Department must ensure it has a satisfactory communications strategy in place before something happens rather than afterwards.