Dáil debates
Thursday, 27 October 2005
Social Welfare Benefits.
4:00 pm
Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
The issue is bedevilled by attempts to statistically measure poverty. Estimates are made in terms of consistent poverty, risk of poverty and relative poverty, with different purposes for each. In addition, the Central Statistics Office, the EU and the UN have different measures of poverty.
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