Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Jobless Households: NESC, ICTU and INOU

1:10 pm

Dr. Peter Rigney:

There is a large public house with which those who go to Croke Park will be familiar and which was mentioned in the newspapers recently. It suffered greatly because nobody was sweeping up in it to an adequate standard, if the Senator gets my drift.

Senator Gerard P. Craughwell raised an important point in relation to travel. The first point to remember is that people on a disability payment will have free travel but one can use the tax saver ticket, which means that the price of the ticket is deducted from one's wages before tax is deducted. I see quite a number of complaints on social media from people who cannot get their employers to sign up to avail of the scheme. That issue might need to be addressed because it is not administrative cruelty and one can halve one's travel to work costs.