Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection

10:30 am

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It could replace FIS. Work on the issue carried out by the previous Government produced four or five options, including replacing FIS, retaining it and closing it off to new entrants. It is fair to say that the reason this was not progressed is because there would have been losers as well as winners. The nature of politics is such that the winners will be happy and the losers will be the people politicians will hear from.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.