Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that where young people take up a course or training, they get the full amount. That is more difficult now and has been during Covid. The majority of young people receiving jobseeker's payments are on reduced rates. It is not just due to age. Many of these people live at home and the whole household income is taken into account with regard to means, which can see them get less or nothing at all in some cases. The report about poverty and its impact is important. Sinn Féin tabled an amendment to the Social Welfare Act in 2019. The report was due to be published within three months, which was a short timeframe, but it is now more than a year and a half later. I received an answer to a parliamentary question last July which stated that the report was being finalised. It is now a year later and we still have not seen that report. Will the Minister guarantee that it will be published before the summer recess?

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