Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)

It is in response to the Supreme Court decision that we have this Bill before us. A particular group of people were wrongly charged, and we are paying back money to those people. What we are putting in place is legislation to pay such people, with a safeguard provision in the event of people receiving money under false pretences. We would have a mechanism in place to reclaim money for the State in that case. Nobody in their right mind could object to us putting such a system in place. The matter raised by the Deputy is separate.

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