Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
If the Department had warned people about what it should have warned them to do, there would then have been a whole other cohort of society saying the Department is encouraging - because it was 90% men - men not to share with their wives. That of course is wrong if they had that split in the labour between the two of them, the paid part and the unpaid part of the huge job of rearing a family and earning a living. If this issue had been tackled head-on 20 years ago this would never arisen because nobody could stand up in the wind that would blow if people realised that what we are actually doing was making it better to perform in an obnoxious way.
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