Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have introduced free GP care for all children under six. The National Children's Hospital, promised again and again by previous Governments and previous Ministers for Health, is now under construction. The third storey is up on the satellite unit in Blanchardstown. Child poverty is falling again, at least according to the CSO's survey on income and living conditions , having risen a lot during the economic crisis. Just this week, an increase was made to the family income supplement, lifting low-paid working families out of poverty; there was an increase in the one-parent family payment and, for the first time in a very long time - perhaps ten years - an increase in payments to people on welfare who have a dependent child. That is just a short list of a few things that Government has done in the past couple of years.

In the limited time I have left, I would say that we absolutely acknowledge that a lot more needs to be done and we are committed to doing that.

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