Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development

Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI

2:00 am

Sarah O'Reilly (Aontú)

Has the ESRI engaged with Mary Reader's work? She has published in the Journal of Health Economics. She found that a small child benefit sum paid to mothers during pregnancy resulted in infant health gains. The cost-of-living survey also made interesting points about this and how a drop in income during pregnancy can impact the child poverty rate of other children. Has the ESRI looked into that or done any research on it?

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