Mr. Niall Egan:

Even within the margin of an extra hour, if, say, a lone parent receiving €10 an hour, between family income supplement and if JST was an option, and they went from 19 to 20 hours, they would benefit by less than €2 extra because in terms of the way it works, the JST means test would take off 50% of the extra hour and the family income supplement would reduce the balance by another 60%.