Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

There was no saving. It was delayed because in last year’s budget, bringing in those measures was contingent on savings that did not happen because of Covid. When I came into office, there was no money available to bring those measures in. Even though it was in last year’s budget, I had to go back to Government with a new memo and say that I wanted additional funding to bring those measures in this year. Not only were there no savings, an additional cost was required for having brought them in.