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

Child benefit cuts were made in every budget from 2012 to 2014 and the total cuts for a family with four children came to €104 a month. There were cuts to the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance in every budget. The cumulative loss in payments to a lone parent with two children working part-time and earning €200 per week as a result of Deputy Burton's cuts from 2011 to 2016 was €1,430 a year, which was an income loss of 12%. The Labour Party is absolutely correct to highlight the figures for child homelessness, but those figures were not even counted before that party was in government because it was such a negligible factor.

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