Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion
Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
Okay. I thank Mr. Kinnane. I have a quick question about the SWITCH system. We talked a little about this today and good examples were given of the various groups included in this context. We are in an incredibly volatile moment. I wonder about the Department's confidence in the SWITCH system's ability to respond to situations of particular groups. I am thinking specifically about child poverty and impacts on gender. I pose this question to the representatives of both Departments. I refer to the level of confidence they have in their own forecasts and the analyses of the impacts in the context of these aspects of child poverty and gender.
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