Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I apologise for cutting across Mr. Hegarty. Is it his thinking then that the LPC is not going to recommend anything that it does not think employers are going to sustain? In that instance, because of the way it is going to be stepped in, is he saying there is not going to be a need for support? I think we can all agree that what is in the living wage Act is not going to work necessarily for this. If that is the belief, that is fine. I am trying to understand whether Mr. Hegarty thinks it is not going to be necessary. I know there has been discussion at the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF, and when we talk and engage as we do with business representative groups, they cite this as an issue. However, if the thinking is that it is not that big an issue, I would be interested to hear that.