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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We do not need the history. We want to know what the Government is doing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Is it going to reach the target?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Has this Government increased it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: This Government left it as it stood.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Will the Government reach the target?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Into yellow-pack, low-paid jobs.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Zero-hour contracts.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: This Government made the choice to leave 2% in consistent poverty. Those are the choices this Government has made.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: And the Tánaiste's party calls itself the Labour Party.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Tánaiste never answered the question. Does she think the Government will reach the 4% target?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to reduce relative and absolute poverty rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33330/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I raise this question to ascertain what progress the Government has made in reducing the levels of poverty after social transfers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I did not ask the Minister about inequality or whether we were 0.5% percent above the OECD average. I am asking the Minister about levels of poverty in this country. I accept the latest figures are 18 months to two years out of date but they were produced by the Central Statistics Office, CSO. They indicate that 376,000 people in this country, or 8.2%, were living in consistent poverty,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: From my interaction with constituents, which I maintain on a pretty regular basis, it does not seem that people are very much interested in history. They want to know what the Tánaiste, as leader of the so-called socialist party in Government, has done to combat poverty levels in this country. The latest CSO figures indicate that in rural Ireland - forgotten Ireland - 350,000 people...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: No, we want to know what the Government is doing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: This Government has been cutting since it came in.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Government has taken more from social welfare than it has put back in.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: This Government has cut consistently in a sneaky, underhand way, and everybody now sees through it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: A Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order. Is there not-----