Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government took a range of measures, as the Deputy said, including the €12 increase in weekly social welfare and pension rates, which will apply to all cases, increased rates in the qualified child payment, increased thresholds for the working family payment, which does not apply in this case - I do not know the full circumstances - the extension of child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education, and the various other measures we took to facilitate families-----

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