Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

For some weeks the Government has been promising the famous July stimulus, the details of which we will get soon, with legislation presumably to be discussed next week. Is it not the case that the term "stimulus" is completely a misnomer when what was leaked today and was in the air for the last number of days is that there will not be a stimulus for some of the people on the lowest incomes and some of the people who have been hardest hit by loss of income and unemployment, caused not by any fault of their own but because of the impact of Covid? The plan now is not to stimulate but to slash the payments of people who have lost their jobs and whose incomes have been reduced and to cut progressively the pandemic unemployment payment over the coming months. How is cutting the incomes of people who have lost jobs and incomes a stimulus?

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