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A parenting group has suggested fining families for children involved in anti-social behaviour would target the poorest.
Limerick Councillor Liam Galvin has suggested a €50 fine could be docked from parents salaries or social welfare payments to deal with unruly children.
He earlier told Newstalk Breakfast: When a parent has child or children, the least they can do is supervise and rare them. There are children as young as five years of age going around the towns in large groups - groups of seven, eight, up to 15 - and they re causing mayhem. The elderly people are in terror to go to the financial institutions, the Banklinks, for example.
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1:43 PM April 14, 2021
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1:44 PM April 14, 2021
Stevenage man Pete Perry, who worked alongside Shirley Williams to establish the One Parent Family Allowance, pays tribute to the late Baroness, who has died aged 90
- Credit: PA/Pete Perry
A Stevenage man has paid tribute to the late Baroness Williams, who died on Monday age 90.
With the help of Mrs Williams, Pete Perry helped bring about the One Parent Family Allowance, which would also support widowed fathers.
After the tragic loss of his first wife Dorothy - who died suddenly aged 31 after suffering a brain aneurism in 1967 - Pete discovered that although women who lost their husbands were entitled to a Widow s Pension, men who had lost their wives were entitled to nothing.