5 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will make a statement on the recent media reports that, during recent negotiations on the Programme for Economic and Social Progress between the Government and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Government agreed that they would withdraw the remainder of the dirty dozen cuts; if this is true, the cuts that are being withdrawn; and the reason for the situation that still exists whereby a man, his wife, and two children have been told that they will only receive £72.30 graduated disability benefit when, in fact, if he was in receipt of unemployment assistance, he would receive £130.30 and the only satisfaction that he has got is that he has been told that he can apply for supplementry welfare allowance and that he may receive it.

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5 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will make a statement on the recent media reports that, during recent negotiations on the Programme for Economic and Social Progress between the Government and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Government agreed that they would withdraw the remainder of the dirty dozen cuts; if this is true, the cuts that are being withdrawn; and the reason for the situation that still exists whereby a man, his wife, and two children have been told that they will only receive £72.30 graduated disability benefit when, in fact, if he was in receipt of unemployment assistance, he would receive £130.30 and the only satisfaction that he has got is that he has been told that he can apply for supplementry welfare allowance and that he may receive it.

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