MCDU2: And during that transition period expect the Irish Revenue to be looking pretty hard to extract as much cash as it can from the contractors. We are broke after all and the Revenue is going in hard across all industries.
The story I heard was that the Irish Revenue are not bothering to collect any tax/soc.sec. whatsoever from the Charleroi pilots, who are trousering all their gross pay. This could of course be a scurrilous lie.