Estimates for Public Services 2020
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-28
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

I do. I just need ten seconds. It excludes all social protection payments, including the working family payment and so on. Hundreds of thousands of people are affected by those payments, but the figures do not include any of them and, therefore, they are bogus. Could the Minister confirm that the payment is based on people's income from an employer, that it does not include social protection payments and that this figure of 38% is, therefore, not accurate?

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Sitting date: 2020-05-28