Dr. Se?n Healy:

I think Deputy Ryan was present when I was doing my presentation. Our whole presentation was about rejecting one recommendation: 10.8, the recommendation that basic income not be proceeded with. We believe the evidence base provided for that is daft, very inadequate and poorly researched. We are not asking the commission to recommend the introduction of a basic income, though we think it could; but they could at least allow the darn thing to be studied properly and debated transparently. We want to see the whole thing transparently. With the resistances in the system, they tend to be able to do much work behind the scenes without putting their case on the table. That, for us, is not healthy for good policy, for democracy or for priorities that might support poorer people.