Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Committee on Children and Equality
Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Siobhán O'Reilly:
May I come in on the feeling of nothing changing? To go back to Ms Heeney's point about learning, there has been learning within the system around DEIS. Ms Heeney spoke about how we had an identification model that looked purely at deprivation scores and not at children's needs. When we are looking at identification models going forward, they need to be led by children's needs. It can be frustrating, and maybe it is slower than we would like, but there is learning happening in the system.
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