Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am very interested in Mr. Hanan's concept of jobseeker's payments moving to an hours-based scheme as opposed to a daily one. I was that soldier once and it had a very adverse impact. If one gets only one or two hours of work every day, amounting to 16 hours over the course of a week, which is two day's work, how can that be modelled? If somebody earns minimum wage and works eight or six hours over a week, it probably equates to a day's wages. Somebody doing part-time teaching, as I was, probably earns three times the industrial hourly wage. How can we ensure creating an allowance for an hour does not adversely impact people on low wages? People earning high wages can also work part-time hours.