Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any plan to implement recommendation No. 12 from the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development, and the Islands, Report on Means Testing in the Social Welfare System in Ireland, October 2024 (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23744/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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A review of means testing in the social protection system is ongoing in my Department. This is complex and detailed work but the review is currently being finalised and will be presented to me shortly.

The outcome of the review will inform decisions regarding any potential changes to means testing, including in the run up to Budget 2026. All prospective changes to means testing arrangements will have to be considered in both an overall policy and budgetary context.