Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am glad the Minister for Social Protection is beside the Taoiseach. She might be able to answer this question. She recently announced changes to jobseeker-related benefits. I was contacted by a woman from County Mayo who has worked 30 hours a week cleaning a school for eight years. Every summer, she is forced to sign on. She told me she dreads the summer, every year is a struggle and she sometimes waits all summer for the payments to be sorted. Something has to be done for the many people like her who, through no fault of their own, will be left without pay during the summer.

I ask the Minister how the changes to the jobseeker's pay-related benefit affect the many workers like her, and in her situation?

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