Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

That is fine. I take the Minister's answer at face value. I expect she will impress upon the Minister for Finance the need to go that bit further in his legislation so the budget can counteract what has evolved because of this. I take at face value the commitments that were given before that might not have been honoured. If the Minister is doing that now, I commend her for it. I was not here to press her on that in the past.

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