One-off short-term transfers hide shift towards greater poverty levels as almost 630,000 people live in poverty
One-off short-term transfers and cost of living measures repeated over successive budgets are masking the shift towards greater levels of poverty. Today’s Survey on Income and Living Conditions figures from the Central Statistics Office show that over one in ten people were living in poverty in 2024. Without short-term cost of living measures this would have been one in seven people. Even with additional short-term measures, poverty increased between 2023 and 2024, a worrying trend.
Key findings
629,495 people in Ireland are living in poverty (11.7 per cent), of which 190,108 are children.
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