Dr. Se?n Healy:

The concern I have all the time is that a good concept does not necessarily mean that people would get sufficient income to live life with dignity into their pocket. That guarantee needs to be built in to the job guarantee and then we can go with it. Having a basic income system or not would not impact on that. One could still have a job guarantee system with a basic income system. I would be positive about it on the condition that the payment was absolutely guaranteed to provide sufficient income to live life with dignity, which is not the welfare rate as has been pointed out clearly by both Ms O'Brien and Ms Rogers already.