Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion

Dr. Tom McDonnell:

We saw during the Covid pandemic that the rates were not deemed to be sufficient for middle-class people, although they were okay for working-class people. If it happens to us, we say that we need to develop a whole new system to protect our people because we do not deserve to be unemployed. That is how I see it. I am being slightly too cynical of course, but the point is there.

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