Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As people are aware, some workers have voted on it. This application will go to the Pensions Authority, an independent body, which will make a decision in this regard. I have met people who are affected by this and who have paid into this scheme. Given the scale of the deficit and all of the work underway to deal with this, how can anybody be certain that more funding would be secured to deal with this and if this process was not to work, what, if anything, would take its place?