Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion

Ms Catherine Bond:

No. She is getting nothing. With the foster carer's permission, I can send the correspondence to the committee. We are seeing unaccompanied minors being placed in family homes. Some of the carers are approved foster carers and others are unapproved foster carers. The carers have no entitlement to payments - not even child benefit. I am aware that some unaccompanied minors are coming into Ireland with non-relative adults, and the adults are receiving the child benefit for that young person. The families caring for the minors are receiving nothing at the moment. I think that answers all of the Chairman's questions.

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