Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government did not query the 30-year rule because I was in Cabinet at the time. We are just confirming the 40 years, which can be a challenge for some people but that is fair enough.

What is the logic behind only allowing 20-year caring periods for children? This seems to discriminate against spread-out families. If you have three or four children and there is more than eight years between them-----