Dáil debates

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members]

 

3:20 pm

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Let us listen to Social Justice Ireland on budget 2012 and the Department of Social Protection under the then Minister, Deputy Joan Burton. Social Justice Ireland said families with children were among the greatest casualties of that budget. It described as "draconian" cuts to child benefit for the third child and subsequent children as well as to the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance when almost one in five children was at risk of poverty. Social Justice Ireland said the cumulative effect of the cuts would make life unbearable for many individuals and families. St. Vincent de Paul said of Deputy Burton's second budget that a lone parent with three children who had returned to third level education would lose a minimum of €906 a year as a result of the then Minister's welfare cuts.

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