Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We should all be more concerned about people who are on the breadline and people who require this money. I understand the position the Minister has on double payments. A large organisation like the HSE, with the best will in the world, can often make overpayments to staff. Those payments are recouped quite quickly and we have all dealt with cases like that in the past. My concern would be getting the money to people in the first instance; that should trump any consideration. We deal all of the time with double payments, recoupments and so on, so that should not have been an issue. However, I understand what the Minister is saying. Can he confirm precisely when he believes all of this will be resolved? He mentioned that in the next few weeks he expects everybody who is eligible for the payment to receive it. He is saying on the record of the Dáil that in the next few weeks those who are yet to receive the payment will receive it. Is that correct?

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