Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move recommendation No. 8:

In page 20, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:"(5) Where a primary claimant marries and is no longer a single carer, and where the secondary claimant continues to share the parenting of his or her child, that secondary claimant shall be entitled to the single person child carer credit in full.".

I am seeking in the recommendation that where a primary claimant marries and is no longer a single carer, and where the secondary claimant continues to share the parenting of his or her child, the secondary claimant shall be entitled to the single person child carer credit in full. Where there has been a separation and someone remarries, the other parent then becomes what the Minister terms the primary parent, but will get the child carer credit in full, as the other couple are now married.

There are such situations where people separate and enter a new partnership or marriage. This recommendation would allow the other parent to claim the single person child carer credit in full. All of the recommendations we have tabled to section 7 do not support in any way the changes the Minister is making; they are trying to improve a bad situation.