Seanad debates
Wednesday, 6 November 2002
Social Welfare Benefits: Motion.
Support for children by way of actual money is terribly important. Unfortunately we have not been doing anything about child care and many people working outside the home must spend some of this money paying up front for child care, so getting hard cash is terribly important. I urge the Minister to encourage the Minister for Finance to do this. We could integrate the family income supplement into the tax system and perhaps examine the introduction of a refundable child tax credit. The children's allowance people will have been on to the Minister with all these suggestions and I hope they have contacted other Senators also. Some of the suggestions could be implemented in the current budget.
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