Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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On the €3,000 payment to those overseas, when was the decision made to offer that figure? What factors influenced that figure being arrived at?

Given that the first briefing on the Bill was a considerable time ago, what review has the Department done around the impact of the rising cost of living and inflation on that figure to date? What work does it intend to do from this date to the date of actual payment of that amount to people, again, around the cost of living and the rise in inflation? I understand the Minister has reached out to her British-based counterparts regarding the potential impact of this payment being means-tested. She said she wrote to one of the British ministers. Will she give us an idea of when that correspondence happened?