Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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That could be done for very little money. It is the idea that we will help people up to a point and then they are jumping out of poverty. As I keep emphasising, in this case in particular we are talking about two generations. My view is that every cohort of people we can get out of the catch-22 that is involved in these schemes, the better.