Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 252: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has calculated the cost of reducing the national minimum wage by €1 in view of the likely increased entitlement of those in receipt of the minimum wage to increased rent allowance payments, family income supplement entitlements and other secondary social welfare benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46418/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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It is not possible to provide an accurate costing of the impact on social welfare expenditure arising from a reduction in the minimum wage.