Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Yes, can I come back to that? The focus is very much on the means test which the Minister has raised successively. She raised it twice. Are employers using carer's benefit, which does not have those restrictions to anything like the same extent? Are they using that in a creative way? Carer's assistance is really for full-time care so those recipients would be detached from the workforce. The focus seems to be more on people staying attached to the workforce. I am wondering about the use of carer's benefit or the constraint in carer's benefit. Will Dr. McGann identify reforms that would make that more workable, to combine part-time work with caring responsibilities?