John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 17:

17. In page 14, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Review of means testing of child maintenance payments

18. The Minister shall conduct a review and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the financial effect of the consideration of child maintenance payments as household income in the means test for various social welfare payments and that the report shall be presented to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection within 3 months of the enactment of this Bill.”.

This refers to child maintenance being regarded as means in relation to social welfare payments which the Minister and I have discussed in the House. These payments should not be means tested.