Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 September 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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There are a few people and couples whose sole income is this pension and it has been 15 years without an increase. There is nobody else in the State in this situation. Social welfare has gone up; everything has gone up since then.