Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One of the straw man proposals is a floor, or minimum payment, of €100 a week. There is a minimum payment at present but it was set years ago. We seem to be resetting it at an incredibly low rate. What is the logic behind this? I would have thought that a minimum payment should be €200 a week. I think €220 is the basic jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit payment. A minimum payment of €100 is very low. Another issue is that the people getting the minimum payment are probably those of low means and they would be better off on jobseeker's allowance. It is a very low rate to pay anybody. When was the current minimum rate set? What is it set at?