Social Welfare Payments
Dail Éireann — 2025-02-27
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

Getting this idea over the line was surprisingly pretty hard. It was a long negotiation to get full agreement to get this into budget 2025. That surprised me considering that it is quite a small overall cost of €15 million compared with €180 million to do the double payment on child benefit. In light of that fight to get it over the line, I want the Minister's assurance that he sees the baby boost as a staple part of range of social welfare supports given and paid to families to support them and that he sees this continuing at least at the current rate from budget 2026 onwards.

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Sitting date: 2025-02-27