Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)

I thank the Minister for his response. I welcome the family income supplement scheme and I encourage people to take it up. I do not know if the Minister is aware of the problem that one cannot get more than one copy of the booklet. I have checked this with the CIC and the Resource Centre for the Unemployed. The Department sends them individually and one cannot get a bundle of 30 or 50. I have a display of information leaflets in my constituency office and I hand them out where appropriate. Will the Minister ask the Department why that approach is taken, given that approximately €272,000 has been well spent on an information campaign? The smaller matters are also useful means of advertising it, and that means having the brochures available to people.

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