Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Parents who stay at home forego income. The cost they bear is the income they do not receive. If dual income becomes the standard in an economy, house prices increase to the extent that the person who forgoes income is unable to buy a house. For this reason, should the provision not be to support both parents or to leave the choice to parents? One side should not be neglected because in a rising property market, it becomes impossible to make the choice.