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
Mr. Bertrand MaÌtre:
The only target, as Dr. Doorley mentioned, is based on lifting a certain number of children out of poverty. I refer to lifting 70,000 children out of consistent poverty from the base that was designed in 2011. There were 111,000 children in that position at the time. This is the only target that exists, but it is not exactly the same as the one that has been designed for the total population, where the target is just to have a rate of consistent poverty of 2% or less by 2025. We have not, however, been going in this direction recently. The latest CSO figures show the rate of consistent poverty for children increased from 5% to 8%. More than 45,000 extra children were in consistent poverty, so we are not going in the required direction.
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