Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I raise this because there is a cohort of parents caught in an anomaly. They are the people I mentioned who suffered badly due to the cuts in the one-parent family payment. There is a back-to-work family dividend, which has been gradually cut when they have gone back to work. Is the Minister aware that in June of this year 8,100 lone parents lost €14.90 per week, per child because of the cut in that back-to-work family dividend? Coincidentally, many of them would have exhausted their 52 weeks after school child care scheme just as the summer holidays kicked in and the schools closed, which is creating hardship upon hardship for quite a significant cohort of lone parents. Will the Minister comment please?

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