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:

What we can do and what we do is track. Obviously, the vast majority of these families are in receipt of social welfare payments. We have that method available to us. They may be in receipt of supplementary welfare supports as well as additional needs payments. We can look at how those measurements and payments to those families can showcase this cohort. In terms of tracking the official statistics, that is an issue but we have to go by a methodology that is set, and it is a published methodology from the Central Statistics Office.

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