Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Will it also apply to people who have completed works as part of the scheme, who did it in good faith and worked under the old scheme while this new scheme has been implemented and enacted? They are now left, having spent money they cannot access. As well as that, it is vitally important because the new scheme has seen inflation of more than 20% in construction figures and they need to benefit from that because they have expended that money. It is vitally important that everybody would benefit from this. Everybody bought into this scheme on the basis that it was going to happen and now they are worried that it is not going to happen. I would like to encourage and say today that it will happen and that that is what the Minister will be bringing to Cabinet to make a decision on.

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