Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will add a line on that anomaly. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has proposed that people should be able to receive JST and FIS subject to means testing.

That would serve as a way of ensuring that people who wanted to access some of the other measures that come with the jobseeker's transitional payment, JST, for example, would be able to benefit from that while still accessing family income supplement, FIS. We have seen cases and anomalies arise where lone parents who are on FIS try to access back to education measures. Is there potential for concurrent payment of JST and FIS? I know there have been concerns in the Department about that but I would like to know the thinking on that now. It is building on the point made by Deputy O'Dea.