Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In addition, I am pleased to announce the payment of an 85% Christmas bonus for social welfare recipients in 2016. Many of those in receipt of these payments were our most vulnerable citizens. We cannot have a just society if we leave them behind.

There will also be improvements in other schemes, including farm assist, as well as 500 new places on the rural social scheme.

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