Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Social Protection Issues: Minister for Social Protection
2:00 am
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
I appreciate the position they are in but the key word the Deputy used was "predictable". They know from year to year what is coming. We in the Department need to get a quicker turnaround in terms of payments to them. Jobseeker's pay-related benefit is for people in an unpredictable situation like the one we discussed earlier, where a company has to make redundancies at a late stage. We can look at it in the context of the review but the word is "predictable". This is for the unpredictable ones where they will hopefully get back into employment within a few months. Seasonal workers are in a more predictable space.
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