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

With the home caring periods and most carer's allowances, this is going to become much more acute now. The other issue which comes up then is if one has a child, and normally there is a birth certificate, particularly for Irish born children, where it is relatively simple, where if one gives the date of birth to the Department it will pay the child benefit to the child for 12 years. This is fairly black-and-white. But where it gets into this kind of thing of making one's submission, and so on, the problem with much of that stuff is that the most disadvantaged people, in literacy senses in the State, always tend to be at the most disadvantage.