Children in Care
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-20
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Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan

I will speak to my officials about that. I am happy to engage with the Deputy because that is not the purpose here. We want to try to help people, especially if they have a guardian and especially now that I am removing the maintenance payment that a child may have got. That will not be taken into consideration. It is not about putting obstacles in anybody's way here.
Taking on a child who has been abandoned, has no parents to look after it or whose parents are dead is a big undertaking for anybody. If the Deputy send me on the details, I will be happy to look at them.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-20