Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development

Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Photo of Eoin HayesEoin Hayes (Dublin Bay South, Social Democrats)

That is totally fair and I would not want the Minister to introduce anything with unintended consequences of that magnitude. However, it would be worth understanding some of those dynamics and for those dynamics to be presented to the committee so that we can understand from a policy perspective and the perspective of unintended consequences what various options are available to the Government and the Department itself in terms of alleviating child poverty and focusing on it further than what-----

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