Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Given the massive tax increases Sinn Féin proposed, its pot was much bigger. However, it still proposed to give carers less than we propose to give them, and it still proposed to give some people nothing when we propose to give people €5 extra per week. We can come back to the matter later if the Deputy so wishes.

I seek a solution. A load of amendments seeking reports on different matters have been tabled. Amendments are tabled on Report Stage so they can be discussed, and we can discuss them in this forum and then discuss them again. What I do not want to do is commit to doing seven or eight reports on seven or eight different issues. It is too much to do and too much to handle. However, if all parties were to agree, and if we were to decide to do one report, the one I would be willing to agree to commission, to do within six months and to do independently is the one on the one-parent family payment and the impacts and the changes in this regard since 2015. The JST payment is discrete to those in that situation. I would commit to a new report considering comprehensively the changes to the one-parent family, not just the JST payment.