Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Equality and Fairness of State Pension: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Henry Gaynor:
At the moment, they sign on at the social welfare office. I have met people who find that an insult. I have nothing against people who are on social welfare. Some people take great pride in the fact that they have worked all their lives without looking for anything off the State. They believe it is an awful insult to be expected in the very last year of their working lives to go down to the social welfare office and start signing on. I must say that some people are very angry about it.
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