Social Welfare Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-29
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Éamon Ó Cuív (FF), Galway West

Since moving to the west many years ago and finding out about the means testing system, I have always believed it to be penal. We often speak of how the tax system can act as a disincentive to workers saving but it also fair to admit that the social welfare system does that more. I will give one example. In the case of most working age means tested payments, with the exception of disability, which I will discuss when we reach Question No. 28, any savings over-----

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Sitting date: 2020-07-29