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

I do not have the full transcript in front of me, but I think, if I remember correctly, the Deputy was referring specifically to students and young people working part time, and not the kind of examples he gave. We have the same welfare system as we had before the pandemic. It is internationally and independently adjudicated to be one of the more generous welfare systems in the world and one of the most successful in redistributing income. That welfare system is not being cut. We layered something new on top of it, and that was the PUP.

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