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:

We are definitely not going to reach the targets anyway so I presume the Government and the Department of Social Protection are thinking of setting out new targets. The framework, as the Deputy said, was for between 2020 and 2025. We will be at the end of that in six months so I presume the Department is trying to set out a new target for children. We have one for the total population but we are not going in the right direction.

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