Labour to oppose axing of Christmas bonus for welfare recipients

MOVES to cancel the traditional Christmas bonus given to welfare recipients will be challenged in the Dáil, it emerged last night.

Labour is to force a debate on the issue this week to highlight what it sees an unpopular measure in the emergency budget.

The party’s social welfare spokesperson Roisin Shortall hit out at the cut as “particularly mean-spirited” that was targeting the most vulnerable in society.