Community Welfare Services
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-29
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Seán Sherlock (LAB), Cork East

I appreciate the Minister's commitment to service. I welcome the fact that the discretionary nature of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is set out in statute, covers everything from household bills to child-related payments, clothing, funeral expenses and other general expenses, housing expenses, illness expenses and a multitude of other urgent needs payments. I welcome the assurances by the Minister - if I interpret her correctly - that she is going to protect those, and that no element of those that are non-statutory will be taken away. It is vital that the discretionary element of the payments be maintained.
There is a point we are trying to make here to the Minister. If I move outside my constituency, let us consider the Navan Road for example. An area that covered Cabra, Navan Road, Phibsboro, Stoneybatter-----

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Sitting date: 2022-11-29