Dáil debates

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions

One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility

9:40 am

Photo of Aengus Ó SnodaighAengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her response to the Central Statistics Office SILC finding that the number of lone parent households suffering enforced deprivation has risen to 63%; if in consideration of the SILC findings and in the absence of affordable after-school care, she will abandon her plans to lower the cut-off age for the one-parent family payment to seven years to avoid the significant financial loss that will be suffered by thousands of lone parent households as a consequence of the intended cut from 2 July 2015. [5031/15]

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