Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have family members who have gone through this and I have friends who have gone through this. They have been in and out of courts trying to get the dual responsibility of the father to pay up for his children. If it fails in the courts, let us have direct payments from social welfare or from salaries. That is a policy I want to see implemented. What type of society are we propagating that we are making victims of our children? We are making pariahs of our women. It is wrong. Let whoever creates contribute. I would like to hear the Minister of State's response to that.