Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are working on every issue that has been raised. We are looking at the employer mechanism, which obviously can be assessed by the committee, and the Exchequer mechanism. I am not sitting on my hands and waiting for the assessment work to be carried out. I am moving immediately because there is a crisis, and I am acting to deliver cash straight away, to put an employer's mechanism in place which hopefully will be agreed in the budget, and I am making contingency preparations with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform should it be decided that this is the route to go. I can assure the House that the budget is not exhaustive. We are looking at issues such as cashflow impact, which is the sort of thing that clearly is an issue if this is to be a workable operation. That is wise planning, but we are not making any assumptions about what the Oireachtas committee might recommend to us.

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