Webinar: Child Poverty on the island of Ireland

This event will launch a new ESRI report titled Child Poverty on the island of Ireland by Helen Russell, Anousheh Alamir, Bertrand Maitre

This research is part of a joint research programme between the Department of the Taoiseach’s Shared Island Unit and the ESRI on the economic and social opportunities from increased cooperation on the Shared Island.

Event Programme

11:00

Welcome

Alan Barrett (ESRI, Director)

11:05

Presentation of Report

Helen Russell, Anousheh Alamir, Bertrand Maitre (Report authors, ESRI)

11:35

Q&A

11:50

Panel

Niall Muldoon, Ombudsman for Children 

Goretti Horgan, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Ulster University

Jerome Finnegan, Senior Policy & Advocacy Advisor, Save the Children UK

12:30

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