Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Well, I will have to give the Deputy the facts again. Consistent poverty and at-risk poverty have fallen. The 2023 national consistent poverty rate is 3.6%. This equates to 185,385 people, down from 4.9% in 2022, and 4.2% in 2021. This is the lowest rate of consistent poverty recorded since the start of the SILC survey. It puts the Government on track to meet the ambitious target set out in the roadmap for social inclusion of 2%. In 2023, the at-risk rate of poverty was 10.6%. This equates to 545, 856 people. This is a decrease on the 2022 at-risk of poverty rate, which was 12.5%, and the 2021 rate, which was 11.8%.

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