Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----Deputy Ó Snodaigh will probably be receiving approximately two-thirds of the €24,000. Perhaps he might have a special case to get the minimum floor that is being established here.

That is the background to that and it means we have moved in that regard.

We then have the situation of people with higher pensions, but as I said in the previous discussion, the advice of the Attorney General was that there had to be proportionality. That has been the financial emergency measures in the public interest test in respect of a number of cases that have been taken.