Catherine Ardagh (Dublin South Central, Fianna Fail)
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People are watching. When we hear discussions in the media around child benefit, people think some of it is going to be taken away from some people. Obviously, there is anxiety around that given the history of the child benefit payment in Ireland. To be clear, the proposition is that the universal child benefit will remain. This is a second, top-up child benefit to those families who really need it.