Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Select Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary)
Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
On the RSS side of things, I would be very interested in the committee's input, and that of Deputy Ó Cuív and the other Deputies, as to how we look at it. We do not have data to hand on family formation pre-2014. My experience of meeting RSS participants is, as the Deputy described, that they tend to be single male farmers. That has been the case 80% of the time when I have met them out and about. This review is just for RSS, not Tús as well. It is worth digging into the family formation structure pre-2014. There were much higher financial incentives back then as well. I am aware of that.
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