Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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People watching in are often confused by the Vote and the Social Insurance Fund. The Minister and I understand this. For the record, can she confirm, in simple terms, that the Vote covers the expenditure on schemes that are, for example, are means-tested, etc.? The Social Insurance Fund is money people get as of right as they have paid social insurance. What the Minister is telling us today is that between the two schemes, €1.4 billion is needed. That is more than the total amount of one-off payments between the two schemes.