Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

If people were allowed to opt out left, right and centre, the issues and concerns the Minister has would materialise, but if he allowed for an opt-out where the standard fund threshold has been met, then we would be talking about a very small cohort of individuals. We are talking about the issues that are then addressed in terms of recruitment and retention. I am not saying it is simple but I am saying there are ways in which this needs to be dealt with. The problem is that this issue has been going around for quite a while. It has problems. What the Minister is telling us here is that after we had an expert looking at this issue and coming up with recommendations, we are now going to have another expert group coming up with this and looking at recommendations. It is going to be another year, at least, before anything is dealt with, with no actual certainty that anything is going to be dealt with. This report was published a year ago. There was plenty of time to actually look at this.