Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion

Dr. Se?n Healy:

Yes, but it is all wrong. They should have a payment that is at least at a level at which it would provide a minimum standard of living. We are working towards that and it the reason we are arguing for benchmarking. I welcome that the committee is supportive of the idea of benchmarking. We want to benchmark to wages. Ms Bennett made a point about a 27.5% benchmark. We were asking for 27.5% on average. It is not a very high benchmark but it was reached in 2007. This is why we are holding on to it.