Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Can I come back to Mr. Cody on that? People have never faced these issues before and the documentation from Revenue and other sources is complex. The purpose of the scheme is to provide support and assistance to people who are in extremely stressful difficulties in their households and businesses at a time of a pandemic. Mr. Cody has intimated that twice in terms of their failure to interpret that correctly. These are people who are well able to keep their tax affairs in order on a year-by-year basis. This is something very different. There is an onus on the State in terms of the way it communicates with people. There is no element of sharp practice, fraud, stupidity or anything else in this case. They had an alternative and they have made a genuine mistake, one that anybody here could have made. A measure of care by the State is an appropriate response for the sort of people I am describing.