Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When the then Minister, Deputy Burton, introduced the reform, she did not introduce it right away as an emergency response to the financial crisis; she set a future date of 2021 for its implementation. It was not an emergency response to the crisis we faced at the time; it was the then Minister thinking and planning ahead and introducing a necessary reform a little before it was needed. The Labour Party has now abandoned that policy and stated let us put it off; let us wait until there is a crisis before we deal with it.

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