Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion

2:20 pm

Mr. John Bohan:

There are two things at issue here. Certainly if the committee would like put a number of different permutations or combinations of the payment to us, we can work on them and do a similar type of analysis. We are happy to do that. I would sound a word of caution. The model we use is the ESRI switch model which is well-established in this area. The analysis that was done for the group was obviously based on a particular number of budgetary parameters at the time. They were the pre-budget 2012 parameters. One would have to update them to compare like with like. That model changes itself because the ESRI re-bases it when new income data come out. With that in mind, if the committee wanted us to recalculate the numbers or do a number of different options, we would be happy to do that.

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