Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would not question the Deputy's knowledge on the RSS ever. He will know too the answer that I am able to give, that I will use the phrase, "It is a budgetary matter", and that I do not control the strings in the middle of a budget year. I attended the first meeting of the review group. It was very clear that the income side of it came up there as well. We had 1,000 submissions to the questionnaire we put out. There is a bit of that in the process there. I would be very surprised if proposals around increasing the rate of it were not part of that. If we have that volume of people participating, and if we have high volumes of people saying that, it can certainly strengthen our hand at budget time to make the case the Deputies have made.

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