Family Support Services
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-17
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Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan

I intend to bring a memorandum to the Government with the full report and our proposed response. I can assure the Deputy that this report is not going to sit on a shelf anywhere in the Department of Social Protection. I am coming to this with an open mind, as I have said previously. My priority in all this is the mothers and the children. The Deputy and I have discussed this on a number of occasions. I want to move it along. It is my intention to get this to the Cabinet before the summer recess, and the report and the Government's response will be published in full at that stage. It is important that we move it along, but it is a complex and important issue so I do not want to rush it either. I want to give it careful consideration along with my Cabinet colleagues. As I said, I will not be putting it away on a shelf or anything like that. I will act on it.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-17