An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2026-09-16
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

That is €1,100 to a parent with one child. It is €1,700. That is not to be dismissed. It does not get factored into those surveys. Free schoolbooks were not. To me, preventing poverty is, first of all, about guaranteeing children access to education, food and good, regular hot meals, and also ensuring that their families have supportive incomes, which we do through the social protection system, and we have substantially increased the child support payments, with record increases. They were not incremental, as the researchers described them. It was actually a record level of increase.

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