Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Select Committee on Social Protection
Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage
10:00 am
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
In the Dáil Chamber, Deputy Gino Kenny mentioned the futility of having too many reports. The report on child poverty that gives us the child poverty stats is done by the CSO, which is independent of my Department. That is SILC. We are waiting on the 2015 report, which should be out in the next couple of weeks, and the SIM.
All we are going to do is take the cover off it and put our cover on. It really would be a futile exercise.
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