FINANCE MINISTER PASCHAL Donohoe has told the Dáil he does not think people in receipt of the €350 pandemic payment are “living it up”.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Sarah McInerney this morning, Pat McDonagh – who co-owns the Galway-based outfit – said there is no incentive for workers earning more money on PUP to come back to work, and that the payment needs to be reviewed to “give some people more and other people less”. “Why would he bother coming into work when he can sit at home and get €350 into his account every week,” McDonagh said.
“Most people I’ve met who lost their jobs through no fault of their own want to get back to work because there’s a dignity about work, but they want to go back to work that ensures that they earn a weekly pay package that allows them to make ends meet.” McDonagh said he wants to see the PUP reviewed as well as the wage subsidy scheme for employers as there are no subsidies for women returning from maternity leave or for new employees.
Related Read 28.05.20 ESRI warns against austerity measures in short-term as economy heals from the pandemic‘Gaming the system’ “Can I just disassociate myself and anybody else who has wrongly intimated that people are gaming the system. “We’re being asked today to vote in the house on a sum of six thousand, eight hundred and 40 million euro increased money for social welfare payments, which I welcome, of course, but without any information as to the future of this particular payment.”
He then did say, well maybe the local gaa lottó!
Working for , not so , 'super'macs, you won't have the price of a lotto ticket. Plan B, Mr McDonagh?
This why I don't do the Lotto.
What's eating him? He doesn't have the capacity to take back all these lottery winning staff as supermacs only operating drive thru, maybe he should direct his ire at the government, who forced these people to go on 350, he's a clown
MaryLouMcDonald your words of agreement are deafening. No political points in it for you sinnfeinireland
Probably true to the most extent, however for those earning less than 350 , well yes indeed they are living it up.
There are kids with Saturday jobs on the €350 per week
Yea like what you pay your workers
Bring it in line with the dole
He should have no say...he’s getting well paid by state because of the pandemic!!!
Employers seriously threatened that employees may realise they're worth more
Maybe the abolition of zero hours contracts and paying staff a living wage would be better addressed by Mr McDonagh
The Covid19 pandemic payment of €350 per week is a very serious threat to employers who exploit cheap labour with unliveable wages.