Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is something I will reflect on in regard to the regulations. We cannot have a situation where somebody can be sick forever and on half pay or on rehabilitation pay. The idea is that we would come to make some discernment in regard to it. I do not think that is the issue about which the Deputy is talking. She referred to an example where it might not be 24 months but 30 months or a while longer. Let me reflect on that and have regard to what emerges from the final discussions in the Labour Court on 16 December.

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