Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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There must be an information piece.

If I may, I will ask just a final question, a broad one. I apologise if it is overly broad. There has been talk about the working-age payment. Now the technology as to how Revenue talks to the Department of Social Protection is probably at a point where we can begin to consider that. I think many autistic people would very much benefit from that kind of flexibility because we have talked about those cliff edges, whether real or in the group imagination. Those are one of the huge barriers to participation. It was mentioned in the Commission on Taxation and Welfare report. Where is the Department in its thinking on that? That would be a very large-scale project, I imagine. If the Department were to go after it, what kind of timeframe would there be? That is a multi-annual project, I assume. It is a very broad question, but Mr. Hession might be able to address it nonetheless.