Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----whereas they were on lone parent allowance previously. They are not all imagining it. They are not all coming to me presenting false documentation. I can send the Tánaiste the details of various instances. I promise I will send them over to her. Lone parents are worse off. There is a different means test and it is less attractive to go out to work. That is the reality.

How is it making it more attractive for people to go out to work if they will be earning less than they were previously? How is the Tánaiste making it more attractive by bringing in a different means test that will ensure they earn less?

The Tánaiste can talk about the family dividend, the family income supplement and so on, but the my figures, and the examples I can send her, take all those matters into account. One must remember - and the Tánaiste did not say this, of course - that the family dividend is only a temporary provision. One gets 100% the first year and 50% the second year.

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