Tomás MacGiolla
Question:31 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Social Welfare if, in regard to the range of measures announced in Dáil Éireann on 19 December 1991, he will outline the total anticipated saving to the Exchequer; if he has yet presented proposals regarding the transfer of responsibility for sickness payments to employers to the Central Review Committee of the Programme for Economic and Social Progress; if he will outline the Committee's reaction; if he will also outline the way in which he can reconcile these changes with the commitment contained in the Programme for Economic and Social Progress that social welfare recipients would be protected and their living standards maintained and where possible improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.