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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: That is a matter for Report Stage.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: I will allow Deputy Brady to make a brief response before we suspend the meeting.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: I ask the Deputy to stay with this part.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: I need to suspend the meeting.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: The Deputy can come back to some of those issues in a moment. The specific amendment before the House relates to lone parents. The other issues will be discussed during the course of the day. We are going to suspend now because we have to vacate the Chamber. Before we do so, we should dispose of amendments Nos. 5 and 6, which the Minister has indicated his willingness to accept.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: The select committee will resume its consideration of the Bill at 2 p.m. in Committee Room 4.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: Before I go to the Minister, are there any other Deputies who wish to contribute on section 12?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: As nobody else wishes to contribute on section 12, I invite the Minister to respond.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: Amendment No. 7 on a new section 13 to require an annual child poverty report. It was discussed with-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: Is the Minister happy to accept the amendment?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: That is amendment No. 7, which has been discussed previously, but we have reached the point at which the amendment must be dealt with. Before I put the amendment, the Minister-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: In light of the number of reports outlined by the Minister, in particular the SIM, does Deputy Brady intend to press the amendment?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: There are several. They have been specifically named. That is all that I will say.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: It is not Deputy Bailey's to press.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: The Minister has outlined a significant number of reports, both independent and internal to the Department, that are published annually. The amendment has been validly moved. I referred to Deputy Brady to ask whether he intended to press it, which is his entitlement.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: The amendment is specific in the sense that it does not ask for the measures; it asks for a report on child poverty rates. It does not ask for any of the measures Deputy Brady refers to. It is quite specific. I want to be fair to everyone. The Deputy is asking for a report to be published annually and laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the State's child poverty rates. It is a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: Amendment No. 7, which we have just discussed, and which we have discussed previously, is on the child poverty rates issue.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: Amendment No. 8 is in the names of Deputies John Brady and Denise Mitchell.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Curran: I thank the Deputy. Does anybody else want to contribute on this issue before I go to the Minister?