Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 – Social Protection (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
No. The Social Insurance Fund is a stand-alone fund into which people's money goes. It is paid out then in terms of pensions, demand-led schemes and jobseeker's pay-related benefit comes out of it. There are very strict rules about it and that is why we are stripping it out here on this occasion.
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