Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Putting an advertisement in the newspaper does not sound like being serious about proper dialogue. We all know the constraints arising out of the Covid restrictions but they do not preclude a meeting from taking place with a small number of people in a large room. Can the Minister of State give an undertaking that this meeting will take place within the next month? That is reasonable. It is more than three years since the OPW and the Comptroller and Auditor General established that an error was made. The error in the overpayment is continuing all the time. I am asking the Minister of State to take action to address this matter. We cannot afford to waste any more time. Will he give a commitment that a face-to-face meeting will be set up with the next month?

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