Poverty Data

207. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection his response to the 'at risk of poverty rate' for persons aged 65 years and over, recorded in the Central Statistics Office Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50066/26]

213. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection his response to the at risk of poverty rate for persons aged 65 years and over, recorded in the Central Statistics Office Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50169/26]

4. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the plans his Department has to reverse the trend of increasing levels of poverty amongst older people living alone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46289/26]

90. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the current number of children living in poverty; the breakdown of these figures by county; and the steps he will take to help the most vulnerable children. [31307/26]

237. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide a detailed explanation, in light of recently released CSO figures, of the actions his Government is taking to reduce the poverty rate, and at risk poverty rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21264/26]

351. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a detailed explanation, in light of recently released CSO figures, of the actions his Government is taking to reduce the poverty rate, and at risk poverty rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21266/26]

174. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if the level of in-work poverty in the State has been brought to his attention; if he will consider an increase in the minimum wage as an effective means to reduce in-work poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1527/26]

526. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide his Department’s assessment of the projected poverty risk for households headed by a person with a disability in 2026; the way in which this compares with 2025; and if internal modelling showed a higher poverty risk following the withdrawal of once off supports. [69174/25]

80. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Taoiseach if it would be possible for the CSO, drawing on SILC data, to create a new measurement of ‘consistent poverty (after housing costs)’, which would combine households at risk of poverty after housing costs and households in material deprivation, in the same fashion as the existing measurement ‘consistent poverty. [62184/25]

760. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the deprivation rates in each of the electoral areas in the State for each of the past three years and at present in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53431/25]

82. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that the measurement 'consistent poverty' obscures the full number of people both at risk of poverty and in material deprivation; if he is aware that 'consistent poverty' fails to account for housing costs; if he will consider using both 'material deprivation' and 'at risk of poverty after housing costs' as alternat…

128. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection his views, in light of a report (details supplied) showing almost half of families cutting back on essentials, whether he accepts that successive Governments have failed to protect families from rising cost-of-living pressures; and if he will introduce a dedicated cost-of-living package in Budget 2026. [50754/25]

412. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason it is not standard practice across the board in the Department’s research, data collection and reports to account for the at risk of poverty rate both before and after housing costs; the reason the Department does not always measure the at risk of poverty rate after housing costs; and if he will make a statement on the…

334. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the failure to make progress towards the Roadmap for Social Inclusion target of reducing consistent poverty from 5% to 2% or less by 2025, given that the most recent EU-SILC data shows the rate remains at 5% showing no net reduction; the analysis his Department has undertaken of the reasons for this stagnation;…

335. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the way in which feedback and recommendations from the Social Inclusion Forum are integrated into the development and implementation of national anti-poverty policy; his views on the Forum’s role in informing future iterations of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33358/25]

336. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on progress toward the Roadmap for Social Inclusion targets specifically relating to child poverty and jobless households; the data sources used to track these targets; his views on the challenges and interventions identified to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33359/25]

337. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on progress toward the Roadmap for Social Inclusion targets specifically relating to poverty amongst older persons; the data sources used to track these targets; his views on the challenges and interventions identified to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33360/25]

338. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the mechanisms that exist across Government to ensure interdepartmental coordination in delivering the Roadmap for Social Inclusion; the way in which his Department monitors implementation across sectors; his views on the effectiveness of these oversight arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33361/25]

118. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection his view on the recent Central Statistics Office statistics which show an increase in the poverty rates among children in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21712/25]

634. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Social Protection to list the level of consistent poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in County Clare for each of the years 2011 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2967/25]

635. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Social Protection to list the level of food poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in County Clare for each of the years 2011 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2969/25]

1412. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of consistent poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in County Clare, for each of the years 2011 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3391/25]

1414. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of food poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in the County of Clare for each of the years 2011 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3393/25]

1416. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the deprivation rates in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in the county of Clare, for each of the years 2011 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3395/25]

900. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection the tools or metrics her Department uses to measure poverty in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1717/25]