Marie Moloney (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have two brief questions. Has the advisory group looked at how the system will operate for separated couples concerning who will receive the child benefit? If there is shared custody of the children they do not get the one-parent family payments, so will both incomes be taken into account? Or will it be the income of the person with whom the child is living? I wonder how that will work.

When we suggested a different baseline, the witness immediately came back with a figure of how much it would cost the Department to introduce a higher baseline. Was the Department dictated to or told to stay within a budget when this report was being prepared, or is it being based on the advisory group's own findings?