Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I support this amendment. Family income supplement is a welfare-to-work mechanism that can offer families an opportunity to return to work. However, the difficulty pertains to the thresholds involved because they often are not sufficient. I agree with the previous speaker that it is a very useful tool and recipients of family income supplement, FIS, are a category of people with whom many Members are familiar because they deal frequently with such constituents. At the least this matter should be reviewed and the Minister should accept this amendment.

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