Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 5, before section 1, to insert the following new section:

"1.—The Minister for Social and Family Affairs shall, within 3 months of the commencement of this Act, lay before each House of the Oireachtas, a report on the progress to date in replacing the One Parent Family Payment with the new parental allowance for all low income families.".

We are targeting one-parent families, which are those most at risk. It is not always necessarily the case that a single-parent family would be more at risk than a low-income family with both parents. However, we have generally found that the former category is most at risk. I therefore ask the Minister to provide an update on the progress that has been made on the new parental allowance.