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

All I am saying is that this is a very attractive, positive scheme that encourages work.

For a long time, and well before I was in politics, this interface between welfare and work was a concern to me. Sometimes the welfare system was an inhibitor to work. This is one that always encourages people to work. The more it is the scheme of choice for people rather than jobseeker's' benefit and the X and O system and all the complications of it, the better. I just think it is a good scheme. I wonder how sensitive it is cost-wise to increase the threshold.