Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Briefly, there is a way out of this and the vacuum that has been created. The Minister could accept the relevant amendment and use the Consumer Price Index, CPI. That would remove any difficulty, now that he is in this mess. I do not know if the Minister knows the German-Czech writer Franz Kafka but he should read his work. In fact, his writing would be more easy to interpret than the Minister's formulas. To get back to the point, if the Minister uses the CPI, that will get him out of this mess. That is the simplest thing to do. At this point, that is what should be done and that is what I am proposing.

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