Poverty

Two submissions suggested that the DCEDIY SoS commit to addressing poverty in the Roma and Traveller communities (Pavee Point and NTP). Pavee Point included specific data on poverty

within the Roma community from: ‘the Roma in Ireland – A National Needs Assessment’, completed in 2018 in partnership with the Department of Justice and Equality. This included that 49.5% of Roma people in Ireland “report not always having enough food”, 17.6% report “begging as a source of income”, and that almost half of Roma households with children “were not successful in their application for social protection payments, which means they were not receiving the child benefit”.