Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Last year when the Government was talking about cutting the PUP, I asked the Taoiseach's predecessor, the Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, a very simple question which he refused to answer. I hope the Taoiseach will give me a straight answer to a straight question. If he thinks the €350 pandemic unemployment payment is too high will he at least agree to live on that until he cuts it in September? Today a series of Ministers, who are highly overpaid - these people are on more than €350 a day, never mind a week - talking about how we need to cut back on the PUP. Those who are on PUP want to be back at work but we all know that by September, many people will still be unemployed against their choice, and whole industries will be shut down. Will the Taoiseach agree to go on €350 if he thinks it should be cut?

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