Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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No. We hope to launch the scheme at the end of this year. There will probably be a four or five month period in order to get everybody in or between 25,000 and 30,000 people. We will then have to go through a series of checks before we can pay out the 75% of payments. I hope that will be done towards the end of next year or at the very start of 2016. I think it will span that period. Then there will be the final payments when all checks have been completed. That is my understanding of how the scheme works.