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Seanad Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 13 Mar 1985

Vol. 107 No. 9

Combat Poverty Agency Bill, 1985: Order for Second Stage.

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body (to be known as the Combat Poverty Agency) to advise the Minister for Social Welfare on all aspects of economic and social planning in relation to poverty in the State, to initiate measures aimed at overcoming such poverty and to evaluate such measures, to examine the nature, causes and extent of such poverty and for that purpose to promote, commission and interpret research, to promote greater public understanding of the nature, causes and extent of such poverty, to perform certain other functions connected with the foregoing and to provide for related matters.

I move: "That the Second Stage be taken on Wednesday, 20 March 1985."

Question put and agreed to.
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