Mr. Cormac Staunton:

The other issue with regard to social protection is its adequacy. Today, the CSO's SILC numbers show that the deprivation rate - people who had experienced two or more types of enforced deprivation - has increased from 26% of adults in 2012 to 30%. Given that the previous SILC numbers showed a deprivation rate of 50% for people in receipt of jobseeker's or disability benefits, I imagine the deprivation rate for people whose main source of income is social welfare has increased above 50%.