Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge there has been an issue in terms of payments and we had a Cabinet sub-committee meeting last week in respect of this issue. Measures are being taken both to deal with the immediate situation of some people needing immediate payments and to create a new model that would make for more regular payments into the future. That is the type of situation that many Deputies have come back to us on, individual cases, so it does not arise into the future. It has to be dealt with systemically and that is the approach we are taking.

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