Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion

1:50 pm

Photo of Marie MoloneyMarie Moloney (Labour)
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What about the council’s input into the Mangan report? What are the council’s thoughts about the fact that child benefit is paid abroad to families with one parent working here? It is a question I have brought up with many, including MEPs, but have never got a straight answer on it. I believe that in such an arrangement the child benefit should be paid at the rate of the home country. Much money is going out of the country through this arrangement.