Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My apologies. I missed the very last line of that whole spiel. The strategy will be published in the autumn. The key element of the national action plan for social inclusion involves the national social targets for poverty reduction, which the Deputy mentioned, which set out the Government's ambition to reduce and, it is hoped, at some point in the very near future, to eliminate poverty. The headline target is to reduce consistent poverty to 2% or less by 2020 with an interim target of 4% by 2016 from the 2010 baseline rate of 6.3%. In addition, there are subtargets relating to children for Ireland's contribution to the European 2020 poverty target. Meeting these targets or at least making significant progress towards meeting them by the 2020 deadline will be a challenge that will require the combined efforts of all Departments boosted by the resources and commitment of civil society. This does remain, however, a commitment of the key plan to address the poverty target and to make sure we put in specific actions, timelines and dates towards those actions to make sure we achieve our overall target.

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