Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Select Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised)
9:30 am
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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No, there is nothing. The double payments are finished now. We gave a double payment at the end of January for everybody on the social welfare payments, as the Deputy knows.
That will be a decision. There were double payments in April last year. The cost of living and inflation were much higher than they are now and that was a once-off decision by Government to address the cost of living.