Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Seán CanneySeán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Johnson is very welcome. It is great to listen to his take given his experience in the UK. I will go back to his point that people in their 50s or 60s who are out of work are getting a relatively poor jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit, as we call it here. Then when people come to pension age they come into a different category. I might have missed what Mr. Johnson said. Is it just the pensions that are index-linked or are all social welfare payments index-linked?

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