Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To respond to Deputy Griffin, that issue has been raised with us and the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform are alive to it. There are challenges in regard to the PUP and the wage subsidy scheme because the issue of the security of jobs is a consideration. As for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme, I would like to think we could examine it in detail in terms of the potential of the individual to get over this hurdle in their current status, whether on the PUP or, more particularly, the wage subsidy scheme.

To respond to Deputy Murnane O'Connor, I will ask the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to review that. The Deputy is a long-standing campaigner on that issue and on the fact that the threshold has not changed in ten years. I will follow that up.

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