Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I might be under a misconception, but I understand the rules applying to child benefit which is supposedly for the child. It has to do with the child in the main, unless there is an unaccompanied minor or he or she is not the asylum seeker. There are European Court judgments which state the child has different status from the applicant for asylum. In some instances elsewehere in Europe and here in the past, people were granted leave to remain on the basis of a child, not on the basis of their own applications for asylum. It concerns me that a child is penalised because the parent or the State has not managed to have his or her application sorted out.