Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Select Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised)
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
That is fair enough. We will look at that. We want to look at it when we look at the pension reforms too. We need to look at how we can support people who are no longer physically fit to work because of the very nature of their jobs. How do we deal with somebody on a building site - we have used this example before - who has a long history of contributions but is not the right age? It is all in that area. As I said, the straw man is there and we will look at it in the context of the pension reform as well.
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