Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage

1:55 pm

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The back to work family dividend is estimated to cost €22 million. It will be backdated to 1 January. I anticipate the legislation dealing with this will be introduced in another social welfare Bill in the spring. The plan, subject to the Dáil timetable, is to have it enacted by 1 April 2015.