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The Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) has said that the Budget 2022 €4 billion capital and current investment in housing signals a commitment to a programme that responds to housing affordability pressures and supports local authorities and our approved housing body members to grow our stock of social housing and affordable rental homes.

The welfare system is vital for protecting people from poverty and enabling social cohesion in a recession, according to Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson for social protection, Fidelma Healy Eames.

The self-employed should be just as entitled to welfare assistance as employees who lose their jobs or those on the dole as they require assistance through the bad times just the same as anybody else.

Responding to the recent revelation by the Department of Social Protection that almost 3,000 public sector workers are dependent on Family Income Supplement, Sinn Féin Cllr Thérèse Ruane, has warned that Irish society is becoming more polarised and unequal by the day. She also recommends that people check out their eligibility for family income support top-up payments as more than €100,000 remains unclaimed.

Primary schools face bankruptcy if the Government adopts the recommendations published in the An Bord Snip Nua report.