Michael Kennedy (Dublin North, Fianna Fail)

I equally commend the Minister for Social and Family Affairs for the employer PRSI incentive. Allowing employers who take someone on who has been unemployed for six months to have a PRSI deduction is a welcome measure. It is good for the person who gets a job and good for business people in these hard times. It will help to sustain that person by upskilling him and getting him back into the workplace in these difficult times.

I recognise that making any deduction is not easy, even allowing for the fact we have had a 300% increase in the last eight years.

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