Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Select Committee on Social Protection

Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised)

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that, but changing the farm assist means test improves being on farm assist but does not change the differential between being on farm assist and being on the scheme, which was crucial to its success in the early years. We will leave it there, however. I look forward to meeting the Minister of State to go through the detail and to give him real-life cases of how this thing works as just a total switch-off for people. Nobody is going to work 19 and half hours for €22.

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