Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is a responsibility on our committee as parliamentarians to ensure that that is enshrined, in so far as we can, in primary legislation to ensure that when Mr. Duggan's replacement is here in 20 years time, that the same interpretation is taken of that. I accept that and that is our responsibility to ensure that happens when the legislation comes in. Mr. Duggan is explaining how this will apply, which is as it applies at present, with regard to the home carer credit, which, personally, I have not had an issue with as regards to this cohort, where Senator Murphy would have had similar cases of people, where the home caring credit was for an adult and where they were not, for one reason or another, in receipt of any type of carer's support payment.

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