Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)

I have no interest in having a dialogue of the deaf with the Minister. We must try to make progress on the issue. I would like if the Minister would agree to open the scheme immediately. I have no doubt that if the times were better financially the Minister would agree to do that, but there is a category of people in respect of both the installation aid scheme and the early retirement scheme who have entered into legally irrevocable contracts and who, through no fault of their own, are now in a difficult situation. We would all like to see the scheme re-open for everybody, but in those exceptional circumstances will the Department look favourably on those individual would-be applicants?

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