Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I expect most payments will be made available within the month. It is the case, however, as the Deputy knows, that there are many different payroll operations included in the different sets of workers to whom I have just referred. It may well be the case, because of when payrolls are run, for the workers I referred to, some of that may happen in early May and not all within April. However, out of the workers and kinds of work I mentioned a moment ago, I expect those payments to be made to those workers in the majority of cases this month.

To answer the Deputy’s other question regarding it going to June, the only circumstances where I can imagine something like that happening would be if there continued to be an issue regarding whether a particular worker was due to benefit from the payment. Perhaps that might result in a late payment. However, as I said, I expect the majority of them to happen in the coming weeks.