Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Committee on Children and Equality

Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance

2:00 am

Ms Tanya Ward:

Dr. Feely may want to add to this. The methodology they have developed is around the deprivation indicators. They are using the same kind of methodology around the DEIS programme as well. They are also trying to use other information sources that they can find because in particular areas of inequality - down near Dublin's docklands, for example - the deprivation indicators do not tell the full story. That is how they have tried to identify them. A bit like the DEIS programme, they put them into bands which will dictate whether they will get sufficient support.