Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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443. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will clarify a response from his Department to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 21 February 2017 (details supplied). [10312/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) is the official source of data on the key national poverty indicators and on household and individual income. The CSO released the main results of the 2015 Survey on 1st February 2017. The report includes the measures the CSO considers most useful for the broad user community.

The consistent poverty rate for lone parents (26.2%) is on Page 9, Table 2 of the 2015 SILC results or can be found at

The report does not include the breakdown to which the Deputy is referring – lone parent households by employed and unemployed persons. The CSO may, subject to capacity, produce additional analyses for SILC users. The statistics quoted – on the consistent poverty rate for lone parents at work (6.7%) – are the result of special analysis by the CSO in response to a request from Officers of Statistics in my Department and are detailed below.

February 7th 2017