Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion
1:00 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I thank the Vice Chairman for allowing me to speak, as I am not a member of the committee, and apologies to those whose presentations I missed. I thank the Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids, SPARK, for the briefing yesterday, which was very informative.
I asked a question earlier of Mr. Egan. He seemed to acknowledge that the removal of the concurrent payment, which is not included in the table SPARK talked about, as well as what it would clearly demonstrate is a significant deterioration in-----