Naughton: ‘Replace child benefit with school attendance payment’
Denis Naughten says 1,500 children registered as attending primary school never make it to secondary education.
While part of the figure may be due to emigration, Mr Naughten — now anindependent TD after being thrown out of the Fine Gael parliamentary party for opposing health cuts — believes the rest of the so-called children are invented as part of a benefits scam.
