Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the news because I know a number of the projects that were in touch were concerned. I heard that one project faced a €13,000 increase with regard to the minimum wage. The new needs-based model is important and it is working. I have said on numerous occasions - and still believe - that we should move to the model whereby every project is brought up to the minimum wage in the funding structure we have and ensuring that those projects that have the ability can bring the wage up to the living wage. That is where we should be at. These community projects provide incredible and really important services in many disadvantaged communities. CSPs provide a lot of supports and they should not be disadvantaged in terms of not being able to achieve the living wage; that is where we should set our goals.

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