The best designed welfare systems also ensure that there are good incentives and opportunities to progress out of unemployment or into education or training. The social safety net in Ireland has been significantly eroded in recent years with cut-backs in the basic rates of social welfare payments by Fianna Fail and the Green Party, and cuts in secondary benefits by Fine Gael and Labour.
This example text from a political party manifesto is in favour of cultural policies or leisure facilities, for example museus, libraries or public sport clubs