Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection

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

I used to have this argument in Departments. The average size of a farm and the average size of a person. If I had a very tall Minister and took the average size of a person and if we both could only get the size that fitted the other person, the clothes would not fit us. If it is only 5%, it is not much of a cost to sustain their incomes for families which is very important, particularly in view of all of these referendums we are having. It is very important we sustain families.

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