John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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It is despicable that they would do this. With the permission of the committee, we will send the transcript of this meeting to the Secretaries General of the Departments involved in this matter and to the Ministers involved and explain to them that, if they have any shred of decency in them, they will recognise the injustice and pay Ms Cronin and her colleagues immediately. After that, we will take stock of the replies we receive, although some Secretaries General and Ministers choose to ignore committees. We will decide what kind of package to send to each, which will be more or less the same.

We will also send it to the new Taoiseach and Tánaiste and to the new Ministers who will be appointed on Saturday. We will pursue it again in the new year if it is not paid. Deputy Durkan made a proposition and we will follow through on that as well.