Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has received the equality budgeting check that was promised when she introduced the budget proposals; if she will present them; if she has received same, and if not, when she expects to receive same. [51120/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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My Department is currently preparing an analysis of the Budget 2014 tax and welfare packages. This Social Impact Assessment will include an analysis of the distributive and poverty impacts of these changes on different family types as well as the impact on at risk of poverty levels. Social impact assessment is an evidence-based methodology which uses a tax/welfare simulation model developed by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) to estimate the likely distributive effects of budgetary measures on income and social inequalities.

I understand that my officials are liaising with the ESRI at present in relation to some technical modelling issues in order to ensure that the analysis captures as many of the main taxation measures announced in the recent Budget as is feasible. I will be examining the analysis when it is finalised and I will publish it in due course.