Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to state that in addition to the partial restoration of the Christmas bonus in December, which will be highly significant for carers and other people in their households, the Government will be moving to improve the situation of carers, the people they care for, older people and children whose family are in receipt of a domiciliary care allowance. The Deputy's suggestion is to take money from some of those categories and to give it to carers.

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