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

Photo of Johnny GuirkeJohnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

Would the witnesses like to see a situation in the context of child benefit where there was a certain budget that could go a lot further? I refer to a situation where child benefit was means-tested and an awful lot more being available for the people who need it the most. What is the witnesses' opinion in this regard?

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