John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In a number of budgets from 2009 onwards, discriminatory cuts were made to jobseeker's payments for those under 26 years of age by both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. Young people were one of the first groups to shoulder the burden in the early stages of the economic crisis and these cuts have left 18 to 24 years olds on €100 per week, 25 year olds on €144 per week and those aged 26 and upwards on €188 per week. A report, to which the Government had committed, to examine the impact these cuts have had has still not been published. Where is the report committed to in the in the Pathways to Work strategy? Will the Minister acknowledge that the cuts that were first introduced by Fianna Fáil and followed up by Fine Gael have been discriminatory to those under 26 years of age?

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