Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

For many years people indicated that the greatest pressures of cost were on parents with child care costs for very young children. The Government introduced the early child care allowance to target that particular group. We also recognise that there are increased costs for people going back to school, which is why parents with children going to second level get more in the back-to-school allowance than parents with primary school children. There are different ways of supporting the various groups referred to by the Deputy.

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