Mr. Tim Duggan:

They are two different things. We have been doing extensive work with as many representative organisations as possible to try to get messages and information delivered to all kinds of employers. That has been done through webinars, leaflets, turning up in person at events that they organise and all of that kind of thing, and we will do a lot more over the coming months. If there are any groupings or representative bodies that the Deputy wants us to engage with, or bodies he has some influence with whereby we can get introductions to them, by all means, he should let us know. We will meet anybody to discuss this and explain it to them in as much detail as they need. We are doing that. We have already reached thousands of employers, but we want to do a lot more of that because there are so many employers, particularly of the type mentioned by the Deputy.

I do not sit in an ivory tower. I have a brother in west Cork who runs such a microenterprise and, believe me, I get it in the neck any time we mention anything that results in an increase in costs for him. I absolutely appreciate where the Deputy is coming from in highlighting this. It is designed by consultation with employer groups in order to phase it in as best we can and to mitigate that implication.

With regard to employees, we are undertaking a massive public relations campaign right now. If the Deputy looks at buses going up and down the road, he will see the ice cream advertisement, and it is also on television, radio and all social media. That is the beginning of our intensive campaign. We will be ramping that up over the coming months and doing much more to engage as many people as possible and help them understand it.

We have an auto-enrolment hub that has a lot of information for all kinds of stakeholders, such as employers, employees, agents and so on. Anything they need to know about the system, and how it will work and be implemented, is there. We are more than willing to engage with any party to assist.