John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I was taken with one comment Dr. Keilthy made. I went off on a tangent, but she talked about restoring the lone-parent payment of €166 to its 2011 level. She referred to the minimum wage and the number of hours worked. One of the challenges and one of the key things to keep an eye on in a social welfare budget is that when somebody is given an increase in whatever the allowance might be, there is not an unintended consequence in that he or she misses something else - for example, the threshold for a medical card. It is important that that type of proofing goes into a budget as well.