ESRI research suggests 40,000 children could be lifted out of poverty by measure
He said there will be a package aimed at reducing child poverty and there are different ways to do this including increasing wages for the low paid and improving access to third-level education for lone parents.[ Mr Varadkar said: “What the ESRI report points out today, which I think is valid, is that . . . measures targeting children in households where there is poverty . . .
Asked where he will seek to introduce a further 25 per cent cut in childcare costs, Mr O’Gorman said he is hoping to bring forward a range of measures including cost reductions for parents. Mr O’Gorman said he hopes to broaden the AIM [Access and Inclusion Model] scheme that supports access to early learning for children with a disability and he wants to bring childminders into the National Childcare Scheme of subsidies to help parents with costs.“It’s early in the process, but we’ll be we’ll be fighting hard as a department to deliver on those,” he said.
Asked if the Government would be prepared to spend the €700 million for a second tier of child benefit, Minister for Public Expenditure said: “All of these issues are budgetary decisions and we are nowhere near yet making a decision in relation to what individual measures will be.”“The Taoiseach has set up a new unit in the Department of the Taoiseach to look at how we can give kids the best start in life and look at how we can reduce poverty levels amongst our young.
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