Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Regarding poverty being linked to geography, a report in 2020 from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, as it then was, titled, Income, Poverty and Deprivation Among Children: A Statistical Baseline Analysis, found that "Children living in regions other than Dublin display[ed] the highest poverty risk", and that "Households in rural areas [had] the highest levels of child poverty in terms of income poverty and consistent poverty, while households in urban areas [had] the highest levels of material deprivation and low work intensity". Therefore, while this is a national problem, I would like to know if research is available on the real challenges facing children, young people and parents in the regions. What is the experience of the organisations represented today in that regard?