Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Pathways to Work 2013: Discussion with Department of Social Protection
3:15 pm
Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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In that case, people should just bite the bullet and sign on. In terms of the information that is available, many people do not realise that it is relatively easy to sign off and then sign back on again. Furthermore, in many cases, when people take up employment they are allowed to keep their medical cards. Every day of the week I meet people who tell me they will lose their medical cards if they take up a job. I tell them that is incorrect.