Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Labour Activation Measures: Discussion (Resumed)

10:00 am

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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Some of these issues are arising from the employer engagement subgroup within the Labour Market Council. Is there any danger of perverse incentive coming towards a situation where the in-work supports that are so vital to and needed by people are calculated in? Might we be building towards having employers planning for and assuming in-work supports in their calculations on expenditure and so forth? Can anything be done on that?