Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion

1:40 pm

Ms Ita Mangan:

I will start with Deputy Brendan Ryan's questions. We have picked the threshold of €25,000 because that is the risk of poverty limit for a family with two children. It is interesting that €25,000 is also the limit picked recently in respect of the deferral of property tax. It appears to be the figure used at a number of these sessions. That is the reason we picked it.