Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask the Minister which measures he intends to put in place to assist children who are living in poverty. As the Minister knows very well, poverty rates have rocketed. We now have a very serious situation in which 37% of people suffer from deprivation in our society.

We must target those children - there are between 138,000 and 193,000 of them - living in consistent poverty and focus on getting that rate down because we now have the resources and the improving economy to do it.

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