Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would also like to see us develop an entirely new social insurance system. Social insurance works so much better in other European countries. Employers and employees pay in and they get much more back in return for that than we do in this country. I would especially like to see the return of dental benefits, but also other benefits. When people in other European countries lose their job they get a much higher benefit initially in the first few weeks and months. That was in our manifesto and I very much want to bring that forward.

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