Calls are being made for a new annual payment to help parents in Clare cope with rising back to school costs.
The Sinn Féin-proposed bonus of €140 would come as a double payment of child benefit for each child in July, ahead of the new school term.
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It’s hoped this would help to alleviate the financial strain associated with the funding of school uniforms and books in August.
Violet-Anne Wynne of Clare Sinn Féin says parents struggling to meet the bills associated with the annual return to to school: