Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-18
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

The Minister mentioned figures indicating improvements in income inequality and poverty in recent years. That is all about to change. Hundreds of thousands of people are being pushed into unemployment. Hundreds of thousands of workers and business people have been pushed into poverty in recent months. Many of the Covid restrictions have wreaked unbelievable damage economically and socially throughout Ireland. What will the cost be to those people and to the State in the coming months?

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Sitting date: 2021-05-18