Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I would like to ask a couple of questions. It has been suggested that some people who are already on family income supplement might lose out. I want to make the point that it is instructive to look at the detail of some of those cases. A lone parent who is earning €300 a week and is on family income supplement is entitled, between the family income supplement and the back to work dividend, to a subsidy of approximately €300 on top of his or her wages of €300. He or she will come out with a net income of more than €600 a week, having started out with a salary of €300, by the time it is topped up by the State to the tune of another €300. A teacher who is at the tenth point on the salary range will come out with a very similar figure by the time taxes and the universal social charge have been applied. When people talk about these-----