Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The ladies are very welcome. I thank them for taking time out of their very busy schedules to come in here, for the work they obviously put into their opening statements as well as the work they do in general. They are all fantastic and their organisations are brilliant.

In the limited time I have, I intend to put a question to each group. I ask them to be conscious that they might only have a minute or two to answer. I will start with the National One Parent Family Alliance. Given the sharp rise in poverty among one-parent families, what specific policy changes do Ms Kiernan or Ms Bayliss believe would have the most immediate impact on reversing this trend? I emphasise immediate rather than long-term impact.