Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Gerald NashGerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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I apologise for interrupting. Today's CSO data in the survey on income and living conditions, SILC, were interesting. They show exactly that: deprivation levels are rising. Government may argue those data are from before the introduction of the measures it brought in towards the latter end of last year and do not reflect them. That may very well be the case but, nonetheless, they are troubling. Does Mr. Nugent agree?