Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Social Protection commissioned the Millar report on the situation of lone parents. As the report has not been published, will the Tánaiste tell us when it will be published? As she may know, it has been leaked and is in the public domain today. It has found that the mandate from the troika was to save money; that the cuts and changes made affected lone parents and left them financially worse off; that the one-size-fits-all approach to lone parents has not worked; that lone parents who work part time are worse off as a result of the cuts imposed by the Government; that the stigmatisation of lone parents continues; and that all of this contributes significantly to the level of child poverty. As all of this is contained in the report that has now been leaked, I want to know when it will be formally published and we will be given an opportunity to discuss it. Given that the report is a damning assessment of the Government's treatment of lone parents, will the Government legislate to deal with the incidence of child poverty?

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