Work Permits
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-19
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

Another short-term solution we could take is actually to make work pay, particularly within our tax and welfare codes. It should always be financially better for people to return to work. We still have 4.8% unemployment and 5.6% youth unemployment. We have a substantial number of people who are only willing to work three days a week because the system prohibits them from taking on overtime or working the full five days. We have cliff-edge barriers like the PRSI barrier and the bizarre situation that social housing income thresholds have not increased for the last decade while the cost of housing has more than doubled. When are we going to address those real barriers?

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Sitting date: 2022-05-19