Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Select Committee on Social Protection
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I will put it this way; nobody has ever come to me and cited that law. I know there are going to be plenty of people coming to me on this one. That is the difference. Money is involved. There is going to be a cut-off point and there are going to be judgments involved. When we are dealing with something that is black and white, such having contributions and whatever, it is much easier. As we know from the health examples, however, when that judgment factor comes into social welfare, it does become more complex. That is why I would like to see the baseline from where we are starting. Perhaps we could get the briefing on how that law works at the moment and to whom it applies. In other words, does it apply day-to-day to a lot of people? How does that operate? We could get some sense of whether this Bill-----
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