Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 14:

In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following:“Report on one parent families with children over 14 years of age

20. The Minister for Employment and Social Protection shall, within eight months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the specific obstacles faced and supports needed by one parent families with children over the age of fourteen years of age, including an assessment of the adequacy of the Qualified Child payment and the potential to extend the jobseeker’s transitional payment to include those with a child up to the age of eighteen years of age.”.

I would query whether my amendments are related. Nonetheless, I am happy to discuss them together because they both relate to lone parents.