Departmental Strategies
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-15
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

On economic recovery, the Taoiseach is often fond of saying, rightly, that we should support people who are working. I have asked the Taoiseach repeatedly about the plight of people who are working but who are punished because their income goes over the social income threshold.
I have mentioned multiple cases to the Taoiseach over recent weeks. I had another case this week of a young man who works in retail and who worked all during the pandemic in a supermarket. His partner is also working. Due to working overtime during the pandemic, his income has gone over the threshold and he has been taken off the housing list. I asked the Taoiseach last week - he did not answer this - to tell us when the review of the income thresholds will happen so that this stops happening. The review has been promised for five years now. If the Taoiseach wants to support people in work, will he raise that threshold? When will this review be completed?

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Sitting date: 2022-02-15