Measuring and Tackling Poverty
On Monday 13 June, the ESRI will host the launch of a new ESRI study commissioned by the Department of Social Protection.
The study explores a range of strategies to tackle poverty. It finds that a combination of measures targeting both employment and social transfers is likely to be the most effective way to address poverty reduction targets.
The study will be launched by Minister O’Brien (Minister of State at the Department of Rural and Community Development).
The agenda for this event will include a Ministerial welcome, two presentations by the ESRI covering the new study and a recent report on the measurement of deprivation and consistent poverty in Ireland, a response by the Department of Social Protection and discussants.
13:30
Registration and coffee
14.00
Welcome
Alan Barrett, Director of the ESRI
14:05
Launch
Joe O’Brien TD, Minister of State at the Department of Rural and Community Development
14:20
Technical Paper on the Measure of Basic Deprivation and Consistent Poverty in Ireland
Bertrand Maître (ESRI)
14:40
Q&A
15:00
Headline Poverty Target Reduction in Ireland and the Role of Work and Social Welfare
Karina Doorley (ESRI) and Theano Kakoulidou (ESRI)
15:30
Department of Social Protection response
15:40
Discussants
Seamus Coffey, Department of Economics in University College Cork and Tricia Keilthy, Head of Social Justice and Policy at Society of St Vincent de Paul
15:55
Q&A
16:30
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