Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
All-Ireland Economy: Discussion
Mr. Paul Mac Flynn:
Let me put it this way: we have the beginnings of it. My colleague, Dr. Lisa Wilson, has done work to compare the poverty rates. No report has been published to directly compare the poverty rates in the two jurisdictions. People constantly talk about the North having far higher poverty rates but the truth is it is far more complicated when we look into issues of housing. We have a paper coming forward that will look to compare poverty rates in the two regions on a consistent basis. That has not been done before.
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