Debate contribution: Benefits: Two-child Limit

Debate contribution by Mr Mark Durkan on 14 October 2025.

MLA: Mr Mark Durkan
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 14 October 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Benefits: Two-child Limit
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5180828

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Minister, you referred, as I did in the debate earlier, to the wealth of evidence from local and national academic studies that demonstrates the negative impact of the two-child limit. Since that was published, I have commissioned a research paper into its impact in the North. Despite the Executive's stated commitment to tackling poverty, your Department has carried out no research of its own. Why not?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2537/22-27.

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