Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Child Poverty: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Nat O'Connor:
On a technical point, and as Ms Bayliss said, we now have good statistics on poverty before or after housing costs. That is across Europe with Eurostat. That is very helpful. However, when we go to calculate consistent poverty, we do not use that data. We use different data. We would need a new statistic called "consistent poverty after housing costs". That is something that could be created in the new plan or just include-----
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