Seanad debates
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage
12:00 pm
Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)
Is it with a view to those figures that 15% was used to exclude people who might be considered to have a minor occupational injury, although it could be devastating for certain people? These changes apply to new claimants of the benefit, which is paid for by PRSI. It is not a change to new entrants to PRSI. If the general insurance companies which provide similar schemes to people came up with a cut for existing members, there would be holy war. People would argue that they have paid into a system——
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