Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 November 2011
83 Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if will release a child poverty impact analysis in relation to budget 2012 and future budgets; her views on the need and usefulness of such an analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32628/11]
View answerAs 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 welfare changes prior to the finalisation of the Budget.
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. I arranged for this to be published on the department's website in March 2011. It is my intention that a similar analysis of Budget 2012 will be published early next year.
