Minister must do a U-Turn – Crowe<\/p>\n
Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has today called on Minister Joan Burton to do a u-turn review on her changes to the One-Parent Family Payment.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe changes due to be implemented today to the One-Parent Family Payment will as currently constructed further marginalise many lone parents. We know from the Government’s own figures that One-parent families are the poorest type of families in Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinister Burton is on record as saying that she would not introduce these changes unless she got an enhanced \u2018credible and bankable commitment on the delivery of a system of childcare\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly this commitment has not been delivered nor are there any plans for the foreseeable future for the introduction of such a badly needed support system.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor many One Parent Families school child care is either non-existent or far too expensive.<\/p>\n
“60,000 people will be directly effected next year and a lot of them will be down money and many of them are poor families who are finding it difficult to make ends meet.<\/p>\n
“It’s inevitable under this system that the changes will drive some people into greater poverty and will force them to give up their part time work.<\/p>\n
“It’s a fact that they don\u2019t have the childcare, the afterschool care, the education training or support that many other families have.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is also misleading and disingenuous for Minister Burton to suggest that a changeover from One-Parent Family Payment to Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance will mean a minimal disruption to the families affected. The One-Parent Family Payment was supposedly designed to enhance the caring responsibilities of the recipient and the Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance route does fulfill that role.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister if she is to reform this sector needs to do a u-turn and refocus again on delivering a credible inclusive and cost efficient childcare system that will benefit struggling One Parent families.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister must do a U-Turn – Crowe Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has today called on Minister Joan Burton to do a u-turn review on her changes to the One-Parent Family Payment. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cThe changes due to be implemented today to the One-Parent Family Payment will as currently constructed further […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}