Major retail chains could struggle to find young people to take on seasonal work this Christmas.
That's the message from protestors who want the government to abandon its plans to cut the Dole for young people.
A demonstration was held outside Leinster House this evening urging the government not to follow through with the cut.
John Buckley of the youth website Spun-Out-dot-ie says young people won't take Christmas work if they have to leave the Dole for two months, and then go back on it at a lower rate: