John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I was one of the householders who had to rebuild their home then I would be very upset that that is the case. This is not the fault of officials but I would expect that a Department that is about to levy 5% on an industry, which will result in costs that the SCSI has set out for us here, would mean that the Minister and the officials would interrogate the proposition to a far greater detail in order to understand why there was a backlash to the 10% rate. I will say the same thing to the Minister and I encourage the officials, as the advisers who have been asked to provide the figures and the analysis, to suggest the same thing to the Minister.