Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Child Poverty: Discussion
2:00 am
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
I am sorry to cut across Mr. Egan. It is just that if the Department is not including it in its metrics for the child poverty targets, then it is going to miss out. Therefore, there is a significant chunk of children who will not be included in that who are at risk of poverty or living in what I would call consistent poverty when we factor in the housing costs. It just strikes me that including the figure in a separate report, and I understand the monitor, which is a very welcome piece of research, means it is kind of existing separately somehow and is not incorporated if it is not mentioned as part of the targets. The targets are effectively excluding those people who are being crippled, or their parents have been crippled, with the cost of housing.
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