Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 June 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion
10:00 am
Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I am speaking about the level of income to which a person is entitled. These are not top-up payments: they are payments on which people live. In taking 25% of a person's payment, even for nine weeks, the Department is overstepping the mark. We should not be moving in that direction.
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