There will be ‘cost to State’ if carers added to Constitution

Replacing the ‘women in the home’ provision in the Constitution with a broad reference to all carers could lead to a spate of compensation claims against the State, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Fianna Fáil justice spokesman Jim O’Callaghan said grandparents looking after their grandchildren, or even a teenager walking a younger sibling home from school, might have a case for payment.