Ms Rhona McCord:

Just to follow up on that and the point that Deputy Joan Collins made about the urgency of the issue, the lack of a 30 cent pay rise was highlighted by Social Justice Ireland. It said that those who need that pay increase are the people who are least able to cope with a crisis, given their already low wages. To defer that pay increase because of issues that might arise in the context of Brexit has a really big impact on the people to whom we are referring. They are the people who are least able to absorb any shocks resulting from Brexit.