Dáil debates

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Questions on Promised Legislation

 

12:40 pm

Photo of John BradyJohn Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Government has committed to producing a report on the impact that discriminatory cuts to jobseeker’s benefits for under 26s had on young people. Budget 2017 facilitated ridiculously tiny increases in the benefit of €2.70 for those aged 18 to 24 and €3.80 for 25 year olds. The report was promised for the second quarter of 2016. It is now 2017 and we have still to see any report on the discriminatory cuts and the impact they have had on young unemployed people. Where is the report? When will we see it and when will action to reverse those cuts to taken?

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