Sean Defoe

They will adjust the amount they're paid.

The only, I suppose, caveat for people who find themselves in such a really difficult situation trying to get away from an abusive relationship is that they need to prove it, essentially.

They need to confirm that through either a referral from a COON-funded service provider that they maybe have been engaging with, a copy of a court order or written evidence from the likes of a GP as well.

So there is a little bit of red tape to it.

But it's something that they think along with the like to say the supplementary welfare allowance, which already exists for hotel accommodation in an emergency scenario.

It will just give that extra bit of help if people are maybe they're in an abusive relationship and subject to coercive control when it comes to the finances.

There's a lot of difficult situations like that.

And that's going to get the nod from Cabinet today.

Yeah, it certainly caught the ministers, the Taoiseach and the Tawnis to all on the hop.

You could kind of see a build-up to it happening as Mary Butler, the Chief Whip, consulted with Michael Healy-Ray a number of times yesterday in the Dáil Chamber just before he

His speech, and we had all been on alert that Danny Healy-Ray was very likely not to support the government and to vote no confidence.

And what seems to have happened, I suppose, there's different versions of events.

If you take Michael Healy-Ray's version of events, as he put it to us, first of all, was that obviously he was in these talks over the weekend.

He was involved in negotiating the half a billion euro deal.

package of supports for hauliers and farmers and the excise cut that was voted through last night.

And speaking to ministers who were in that meeting with him and some of those meetings, they said they had no inkling really that he wasn't going to back the government.

And that was their impression coming out of it.

He'd negotiated the deal and therefore he would vote for it and stick with the government.

But Michael himself says that while that was ongoing, he was speaking to people who were on the protest line, speaking to people in Kerry and with his own background, as he would say himself, of

being a digger driver, of a truck driver, of owning a plant hire business, that he had a great deal of sympathy with them and felt that the government wasn't giving enough and wasn't going to give enough to satisfy them.