Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When tax is being calculated, why would PRSI not also be calculated? Section 9 deals with the retained firefighters. It is high time they got this consideration. After 40 years of lobbying, it must not have been a strong lobby, or else nobody was listening to them until now.

Section 10 deals with the transition to jobseeker's allowance for people on the one-parent family payment. This is good and is welcome. What I like about this measure is that the Minister is taking on board the changing circumstances for one-parent families as a child grows up. The Minister is naming this as a transitional allowance so it will work itself out when a child reaches certain ages.