Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion

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

As I said, for many of the people I am dealing with, it is about the means test. Everybody who comes in is unique. There are people in Ms Thyne's situation and younger people caring who have had employment and so on. Means testing is a challenge in such cases. For a lot of people who are in receipt of unemployment payments or whatever and come to me, and there is a fair cohort of them, it is not the means test but other things that are the challenge. We just need to be careful that in solving one problem we do not create another.

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