Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish a detailed poverty impact study of the current budget and if she will conduct a poverty impact study of budget 2012 in advance of same. [6019/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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An analysis of the distributive and poverty impacts on families of the tax/welfare package in Budget 2011, including the impact of the four Budgets over the period 2009 to 2011 inclusive, was carried out by my Department last December with the technical assistance of the Social Inclusion Division of the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs. I arranged to have this analysis published on my Departmental website in the last few days. I intend to conduct a poverty impact analysis of the welfare changes in Budget 2012 prior to the announcement of that Budget.