Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the situation of people who work and pay tax and PRSI in the Republic of Ireland, who take leave from their job to care for their seriously and sometimes terminally ill parent resident and receiving care in the Republic of Ireland, who fulfil all the criteria for the carer's benefit with the exception that they reside in Northern Ireland, in some cases a mere few hundred metres from their parent's home, and who are therefore denied the carer's benefit.

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