Government examining payments to carers after referendum defeat - Varadkar

The government has to demonstrate to carers that it is “on their side”, the taoiseach has said.

Leo Varadkar said the government could continue to increase payments to carers and people with disabilities, relax the means tests and improve the home-care tax credit.

Varadkar also said it could improve parental leave to give parents more choice about when or if they return to work.

It comes after 73 per cent of the voters in a recent referendum rejected the wording of a constitutional amendment about family care.