Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection

2:10 pm

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Is that not jumping to a figure that the self-employed should pay for the pension and adding all of that on just to get jobseeker's benefit? At present they pay 4% for the State pension and surely it should not take another 11% to provide for jobseeker's benefit.