Dáil debates
Thursday, 30 June 2005
Poverty Levels.
3:00 pm
Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
I am continuing to increase child benefit and welfare payments, which have already increased dramatically. I am finalising work on the possibility of a second tier of child benefit which would be focused exclusively on children in low income households. We have had a number of meetings about that and we are making progress. It will be a major instrument in tackling child poverty.
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