John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Last year, I asked the Minister about the abolition of the bereavement grant. I think he was a bit bewildered. He did not think the bereavement grant had been abolished and told me that there were three payments, which is true, but there was a specific bereavement grant that was abolished. I raised the matter last year during the Estimates process. The Minister questioned it but the figures before us bear out the contention that the bereavement grant is gone. What is the Minister's perspective on that? Again, we have losers. There are certainly no winners in this instance.