Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

I am committed to providing a national carers' strategy, which is one of the commitments into which the Department has entered. We have commenced that work in the Department and are setting about a consultation process with the various organisations concerned with the carers' strategy.

The Deputy has raised the issue of young carers with me many times. The reason it does not move forward is because there is no agreement on it. One must be 18 to obtain the carer's allowance and anyone below that age should not be a carer. That is my point.

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