Gary Murphy looks at the idea of a universal basic income and how it can be the remedy to a wavering social welfare system. As the Department of Social Protection reached its 70th birthday in January, it could look back with pride at its achievements over the decades. Established in the dark, uncertain times of post-war Ireland, the then Department of Social Welfare did much to stabilise the incomes of the nation’s poorest, providing a floor below which the most vulnerable could not fall.
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