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- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The lone parents and children who are suffering do not give a damn about Joan Burton having a cut off Micheál Martin. To them, that sums up the detachment from politics of those in government. What they really want to hear is who will bridge the gap for them-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----who will pay to enable them to get their children to school next September and who will enable them to get petrol to get to work in order to provide funding for child care.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, but I am not worried. They do not really-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are not into the argy bargy of politics. It is meaningless to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: That type of stuff the Tánaiste is going on with is meaningless to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What they really want to hear is whether there is any glimmer of hope that the Tánaiste will see the light and accept that this measure, which she introduced on 1 July, is having a devastating impact on a significant number of lone parents and their children.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Tánaiste do something to change this? Everyone in the House is saying it, but she refuses to be convinced. Even her own party is saying it.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am on the ground. The Tánaiste is not. That is the problem with her.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am not making up this. These are the very people who-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: FIS is not available to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Someone said she communicated with the Tánaiste but did not hear a dicky bird back.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: People have said they have gone to the Tánaiste. They have listened to her.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will give the Tánaiste a bit of advice. This kind of political grandstanding has no impact-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----or does not seek to persuade the people whom I identified this morning. It does not convince the woman who wrote to SPARK, for example, who is down €70 per week. She said she did not want to go into the figures because she would get a lump in her throat, and that she dreaded the thought of winter. All of the letters and e-mails that we are getting are saying that people cannot...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: One woman said that she must now tell her child to stay indoors until 1 p.m. when she returned. The Tánaiste promised a Scandinavian-type child care provision-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----which never happened.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It never happened.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am not sure whether the Tánaiste is aware of the many devastating cases that we are hearing about in e-mails and from constituents that are demonstrating the impact on so many families across the country of the cut to the one-parent family allowance that was brought in on 1 July. I received a heart-rending e-mail last week from a woman who has been working since she was 14 years of...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He has been refused FIS a second time and he has been working since he was 14 years of age. A working woman with a medical condition has been advised by the social welfare office not to work any more and to go on invalidity pension. One self-employed woman is now getting zero payment and has had to close down a child-minding service that she had been operating for ten years in order to get...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Tánaiste aware of the deep suffering that many families are now experiencing-----