Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Senator is asking me for the details of a policy that has not yet been decided. With all due respect to the Senator, when I am ready and the policy has been finalised, the first place it will be brought is the Cabinet. The legislation will then be drafted. It must then go through pre-legislative scrutiny and will then be drafted and published. It must then come to both Houses of the Oireachtas for detailed scrutiny, at which stage we will all have an opportunity to decide whether we are happy with it or whether to amend it. What the Senator is asking me to do now off the back of a Bill that has nothing to do with our new pensions roadmap is to give her a pre-emptive view of what we are doing and I am not in a position to do that.