Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish we could see a commitment from the Government to get to the minimum essential standard of living, MESL, rather than the haggling we heard just before the budget over whether it might be €10 or €15 or might fall in the middle. We need and should be moving towards providing certainty to social welfare recipients to go to the MESL.

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