Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will be well aware that it is now the eleventh hour for long serving deferred pensioners of the IASS. He has, I suggest, a unique opportunity at this stage to pull the fat out of the fire. Will he pledge that, in the event of a sale of Aer Lingus, he will ring-fence sufficient money - there will be plenty of money over in respect of which the Government has not yet made any decisions in terms of allocation - to compensate the deferred pensioners in equal compensatory proportion to the actives?

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