Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I concur with the previous speakers. Again, I say to the SCSI that when it is updating its figures, the template stays the same. All it has to do at the moment is update the existing costs; it does not take three months. We updated our data sheet on 1 July when we got all the price increases from all the different providers across the country. We got the costings we are voting on tonight in February. How much has that changed since February? The costings from all the different suppliers and providers that are coming in can be upgraded in the space of a week. The template stays the same; it is only a case of upgrading the costings to today's costs, which can be done within a week. If everyone else can do it, I cannot understand why the SCSI cannot. This, again, is common sense. People who do it on a daily basis can actually do it because they depend on it for a living. When it comes to other bodies, however, it can take them two and three months. That is why we are so far behind. I believe it should be index-linked going forward.

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