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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (19 Jun 2018): Bríd Smith: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rules regarding access to lone parent payments for long-term foster carers of children will be examined to ensure fosterers are not forced to choose between continuing the care of children or receiving a social welfare payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26584/18]
Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (19 Jun 2018): Regina Doherty: ...one relevant child, who normally resides with that person. To be a qualified parent the applicant must therefore be legally defined as either the parent or guardian of the relevant child. A foster carer is not the legal parent or guardian of the foster child and as such is not a qualified parent in this context. The provision of fostering services is a matter for Tusla (the Child and...

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