Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion
Éamon 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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