Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 244: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a child poverty impact assessment was carried out in relation to potential cuts in the forthcoming budget; and if so, if the findings of such an assessment will be made available on the same day as the budget. [37025/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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As part of the deliberative process for Budget 2012, my Department will analyse, in so far as possible, the distributive and poverty impact, including the impact on children, of possible budget measures prior to the finalisation of Budget 2012.

My Department undertook an analysis of the distributive and poverty impacts on families of the Budget 2011 tax and welfare package, in conjunction with the Department of Finance. After I came into office last March, I arranged for this to be published on the Department's website. It is my intention that a similar analysis of Budget 2012 will be published early in the new year.