Seanad debates

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

3:20 pm

Photo of Kathryn ReillyKathryn Reilly (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Two very important reports were released today. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, released a study on the impact of the economic crisis on younger and older people, while the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, released a detailed report on the social dimension of the economic crisis. The details of these reports make for depressing reading. The NESC report confirmed that 22% of all households are now without any work and a quarter of all children are living in jobless households. The ESRI report states that the impact of the crisis on people under the age of 45 years has been dramatic, particularly when compared with the impact on people over 45 years of age. Given the importance of these two reports and the issues they explore, would it be possible to invite the authors of the reports to present the key findings to the House, perhaps through the Seanad Public Consultation Committee? A debate with these experts on the reports would feed into our workplan and the work we do. The Seanad Public Consultation Committee would probably be the appropriate forum. Will the Leader consider that suggestion?

I also second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by Senator Cullinane.

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