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

That is a matter I will work on with the Minister for Finance. Any agreement or offer made from an industrial relations perspective always comes from the budget of the Department involved in the issue. Any in-year sector-specific pay changes that result from an issue such as the one the Deputy has referred to will come from the Department involved. I do not have a central fund anywhere from which I allocate in these matters. However, this is exactly the kind of issue that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and our two Departments are engaging on at the moment. We will have to decide where the moneys in question are paid from and the impact of this on the housing budget overall. We are working on that at the moment.