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A recently published bill which gives effect to Budget 2023 measures will help individuals and families in Westmeath with increased payments according to local Fine Gael Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke.

Well apparently it is not as easy as that and so when the minister for social protection Eamon O Cuiv announced this week that there were plans in the pipeline to get people to work for their dole money in the future — well let’s just say it wasn’t greeted with rapturous applause by one and all.