Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, I welcome the Christmas bonus, and we need to bring some long-term certainty to it. We pretend it is a surprise every year, as the Minister will know. If it were to be cancelled some year, as we had to do in the bad times, there would be a big kickback. We should just tell people it will be there, factor it in at the beginning and not mess people around.

The Minister stated that people who have been on jobseeker's allowance for more than four months will get the Christmas bonus. Does that include people on jobseeker's benefit?