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

I have acknowledged the increase in food prices, as well as the cost of energy. That is why we did some unprecedented stuff in respect of giving people money back to try to deal with the undoubted increase in the cost of living. That is why the €400 lump-sum, once-off working family payments were made to 45,000 families with 97,000 children. A total of 409,000 households got a €300 fuel allowance lump sum. There was a lump-sum payment of €100 per child to families in respect of 370,000 qualified children. We gave a double child benefit payment for 1.2 million children.

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