Ms Camille Loftus:

Not being a parent myself, I cannot imagine the stress and the trauma of having to be away from one’s children and working in another country to provide an income for them. I know this issue is a popular item in the tabloid press, etc., but I do not believe the foundation of our problems is the payment of child benefit for children of non-Irish nationals working here and contributing to the tax system. They get little enough out of our tax system as it is.