Seanad debates
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Finance Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages
12:25 pm
Averil Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I second the recommendation. When the change to the lone-parent credit was being discussed in the House initially, we outlined many of these arguments and I do not want to go over them again. Where parents are sharing responsibility, they need to run two separate households. Even if a father or mother has a child for just the weekend rather than the rest of the week, he or she still needs sufficient bedroom space, accommodation and food to look after and entertain the child. It is simply not the case that the cost only falls on one parent and can be evenly spread. There is an additional cost on both and we should amend the legislation accordingly. I hope the Minister of State will consider the recommendation favourably.
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