Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Clare Duffy:
It is very complicated. A medical assessment must be passed for the carer's benefit, which is a different medical assessment from the one for the carer's allowance. It is complicated. Going back to a universal basic income, UBI, or participation income would simplify that. In itself, that would speak to the issue the Deputy raised.
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