Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Ms Feeney spoke of poverty. When we have stood over €117.70 being paid to those children, it feels criminal that we would watch young people who have ended up in a system probably because of poverty and then as a State we have entrenched them further in that poverty by not giving them the supports that they need. It shows what a bad parent the State is in the first place.

A young lad whom I supported recently was eligible for CAS but then he met a girl and they had a child, and then they excluded him from the scheme. Is that something that Ms Feeney comes up against much? It is nearly like he was being denied the same supports because he was developing his own family and it changed his relationship with CAS. I am wondering about young people's right to family life and them being excluded because their partner was not in care, they have had a child and they have changed the criteria on them.