Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Matt McGann:
I do not think it is totally accurate to say that because what the ESRI said is that the welfare increases in 2022 and 2023, together with the one-off measures, are large enough to leave the lowest income households better off, on average, than they would have been had welfare payment rates risen in line with inflation.
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