Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I may seek to table an amendment on Report Stage, either to this section or one of the others, regarding lone parents and maintenance payments. We discussed this issue previously but there is no mention of it in the Bill. This ties in with welfare dependency and poverty rates when women are means tested against child maintenance payments ordered by the court that they do not receive. Has the Minister considered how that could be addressed in the legislation? If not, I might look to work with him to see if there is something we can do to insert a provision on a later Stage.