Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

The Social Welfare Bill is to give effect to the proposals arising from the Government's discussion on measures to support lone parents. It will provide for the introduction of a new means-tested payment for lone-parent and other families on low incomes and will replace the one-parent family payment. Much discussion is under way on this at present and I am not in a position to indicate exactly when I will come before the House with that Bill.

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