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. Robert Thornton:

On the roadmap and the targets, something that stood out to me as I sat on the steering group is that there is sometimes a target to address, for example, income supports for lone parents in employment, and the measure tracked is not a measure for lone parents but one that supports families with children equally whether they are two-parent families or lone-parent families. Supports like that are presented as addressing a particular issue but are not as focused on that issue as they could be. This is a question we have raised at the implementation steering group meetings. It certainly could be better.

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