Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The reason the draft legislation and the legislation published on Friday will look slightly different is that when we were drafting from the heads we discovered that, because the ratification process has been started by other parliaments - it was begun long before we received the heads on 1 February, and we have been developing and detailing the drafts over the past couple of months - I can extend the regulations we currently use to pay all the social security payments between Ireland and the United Kingdom.