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Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----in respect of Deputy O'Dea's question about child care, what we did was unique to Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: We raised the age from five years-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----as it is in the UK-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----the North and most of Scandinavia-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----to seven years to make provision for the child to get settled in primary school in and around first class. What we also did-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----is that we brought in no requirement to work.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: We established a transitional seven-year period-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----so that the requirement to work, similar to any jobseeker, arises only when the child is 14. So, we have actually brought in an extra nine-year transition period-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----compared to the recommendations of the OECD-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: If the Deputies are concerned about poverty and lone parents-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----they must agree, as Deputy Stagg does-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----that the current system has not worked.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: In Fianna Fáil's time-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----there was €1 billion per year or so-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----spent on lone parents. It did not lift lone parents out of poverty.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: That is the question Deputy Martin has to answer. Why was he never, in his long ministerial career in Fianna Fáil-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----concerned about trying to move lone parents in Irish society-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----to a better and respected place, whereas-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: What Deputy Martin will not do-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: What Deputy Martin seems to want to do is-----

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