Denis Landy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Senator should join a party with a quorum. We need to see reform in the area of child benefit.

I welcome the Minister's offer to initiate the debate on the report on social welfare and taxation in the Seanad in January. I call on her to review both child benefit and the respite care grant at the earliest moment possible in 2013. We need to focus on this in 2013. I am proud of the work the Labour Party has done within the Government. We make up approximately one third of the Government and are punching well above our weight. I commend the Minister on the Social Welfare Bill.