Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Se?n Healy:

As a principle, we should always work towards a situation where nobody is worse off if they take up a job from having been unemployed. That should be the aim and we should ensure that happens.

On the other piece Ms Rogers mentioned about the additional payment for disability costs, that payment would stay in place if there were a basic income. A person would get a basic income but they would also get that cost of disability payment as well.