Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The amendment was introduced to clarify that point. I saw the e-mail to which the Deputy referred; it was a round robin to many Deputies. I did not understand it because the legislation already excluded carers who were acting as carers for their children and in receipt of domiciliary care allowance. The legislation clarified that lone parents in receipt of a carer's allowance and caring for anybody outside of their children would retain in full their half-rate carer's allowance for as long as their caring situation continues.

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