Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of Sophie Cole, I ask the Tánaiste to have the assault leave scheme amended urgently. I do not know if the Tánaiste knows Sophie. She is a former SNA who was assaulted and injured in the course of her work in November 2022. She has been left with lifelong injuries and in excruciating pain. The financial implications of this situation have seen Sophie and her husband having to take out loans to be able to pay their mortgage. They are in an absolutely dire state. Sophie was injured in the course of her work as an SNA, but after three months, assault leave ended and she was moved onto a State payment of €220. She is asking that this amendment be made not just on her own behalf but on behalf of all SNAs because these types of injuries happen all the time.

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