Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Child Poverty: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Niall Egan:
As I said, and I fully appreciate the point the Deputy is making, we will be reporting on it. We have always reported on it. Our target is singular in order to basically be consistent with what went before, but also the fact is that having a single target is actually very powerful. It cuts through an awful lot of the noise. As I said, however, we are committed. We can highlight and see how we can maybe strengthen it, if the Deputy is saying it is kind of buried within the social impact monitor, because it is a very important document. As part of the current Roadmap for Social Inclusion, we produce an annual progress report. We can absolutely look at how the future new roadmap will look. That annual report looks at this issue and reports on it on an annual basis. We are very open to that.
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