Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

My first question is in regard to the pandemic recognition payment and it is probably a question for Ms Hoey. Overall, we all welcomed that front-line workers were going to be rewarded for their service during the pandemic but the roll-out has been quite haphazard, to say the least. Obviously, workers who were in that kind of environment have still not got the payment, which is bizarre. Why did it need a third party in the tendering process to administer the payment to section 39 workers and other workers who are on the front line? I do not understand why that had to happen.