Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion
1:00 pm
Ms Karen Kiernan:
I appreciate that. One Family has always called for and supports the reform of the payment. The problem is that it was combined with cuts. It was never really going to work and has not been working to date. From now on, better implementation and planning are required. There is a lot that could be done but there are many errors on the ground about which we are very concerned. We have heard about the litany of cases of people who have actually lost money. We are concerned that the payment is not working now. In order for it to work, changes are needed. I will leave it at that. Our door is wide open in terms of collaborating and assisting.
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