One-Parent Family Tax Credit
The proposal to remove the One-Parent Family Tax Credit from non-resident parents completely undermines those fathers who are doing their best for their children. Download Press Release
Budget 2014 contains outrageous change in relation to tax credits
Treoir is extremely concerned at the removal of the One-Parent Family Tax Credit from parents. Download Press Release
Cohabiting dads more likely to share parenting duties!
Cohabiting dads more likely to share parenting duties! Download Press Release
Children’s Rights Referendum
Treoir completely supports the forthcoming referendum on children’s rights. If passed, for the first time there will be a clear statement of children’s rights in the Irish Constitution. Download Press Release
Unmarried Parents – Numbers on the Rise
Thirty-six percent of all births were outside marriage in the first quarter of 2012 according to the latest figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). Download Press Release
Children Have a Right to Know Who They Are
Treoir welcomes the proposal to introduce legislation for compulsory joint birth registration where the parents are not married to each other. Download Press Release
Understanding Childhood Deprivation in Ireland
Treoir sincerely hopes that Minister Burton will take serious note of the contents of this report when formulating Budget 2013 as Budget 2012 was such a disaster for lone parents. Download Press Release
Ireland not yet ready for a single working age payment
Treoir believes that the Minister for Social Protection should not proceed with the proposal for the Single Working Age Payment at this time. This is in line with the recommendation of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education, which is contained in its Report on The Single Working Age Payment Proposal (SWAP). […]
Unmarried parents set to lose out if new plan comes to fruition
Treoir the national organisation promoting the rights of unmarried parents and their children in Ireland, said that it could not support a social welfare system where unmarried and lone parents would lose out… Download Press Release
Radical proposals for unmarried families challenging
Treoir believes the proposals in the Law Reform Commissions’s Report “Legal Aspects of Family Relationships” are radical and far reaching. … Download Press Release