Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is an important point, as is the fact that the fee adjustment last year had a knock-on impact when the universal subsidies were increased, but then the adjustment was brought in, and it had a negative knock-on effect on income-assessed subsidies. I am not sure that got the attention it required, but I hear what the witnesses are saying today and it is essential that it be taken on board in a serious way.