Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Susanne Rogers:

We both sit here and say core social welfare rates are inadequate to provide for a basic standard of living, therefore a wage must be and should be higher, so it does not make sense for somebody to say they will remain on social welfare and not take the job.