Ms Josephine Feehily:

Until we analyse the shape of the population subject to deferral, which will happen towards the back end of the year, I cannot answer as to what administrative model we will put in place to manage the situation. For example, if almost all of the people subject to deferral are on social welfare payments and we receive a file from that Department, we will not need to write to them because we will have the social welfare data. Why would we write to them asking them to tell us something we already knew? However, if a large proportion are not on social welfare and we need the information, we may build an administrative model to write to them. The Deputy must leave that question with us until we see what happens. We are looking into the unknown. We will receive a lot of returns and have significant work to do to get the shape of the population of who is paying, subject to deferral and exempt. We must then work out treatment models for all of these categories for next year and the year after.