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
Anne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail)
I want to tease that out a little bit further. There is the figure of 195,000 children, and then there is a figure of 100,000 children in consistent poverty. Have the witnesses the data behind that research to say it is X number of families of lone parents that fall into that category? Or, it is X number of families that are in receipt of the disability allowance, for example. The disability allowance is means-tested as well. Do witnesses have those statistics?
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