Combat Poverty Ireland map.

by Duine Thu Aug 25, 2005 20:36

In ainm chroim , cad é seo?
Tá daoine níos saibhre ná a chéile. Tá saibhreas na tíre ag dul in aoirde, mar sin, tá an bhearna idir saibhir is daibhir níos leithne ná a bhí sé. Na daoine a bhí bocht, is bocht go fóill iad. Na daoine a bhí saibhir, is saibhrede iad anois.
Cá bhfuil na freagraí?

by freddy Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:17

If local authority tenants are the poorest according to the CPA; giving them more wealth transfers from taxpayers won't actually improve their longterm position.

The way to get people out of poverty traps is to provide jobs.

by Duine Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:21

"provide jobs"?

Tá siad ann is is gá inimiriceoirí d'fháil lena líonadh.

by Walter Greenwood Fri Aug 26, 2005 15:47

Check Nixers.ie, there's loads of jobs on it.

by Dublin Exile Fri Aug 26, 2005 16:53

There may well be jobs on various sites but you'll find damn few of them on the west coast .

by ? Fri Aug 26, 2005 17:34

following that logic, northern ireland is richer than dublin, kildare and meath.
Anyone got a real "combat poverty ireland map "with the north's poverty included?
& anyone got any idea why Kilkenny is doing grand but carlow isn't?

by ! Fri Aug 26, 2005 21:35

Northern Ireland info is of 2003:
The report, entitled Bare Necessities: Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland, was published 13/10/2003 by think tank "Democratic Dialogue", & provided a “scientific” measure of poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland for the first time. It also asserted that poverty in Northern Ireland is worse than either the Republic of Ireland or Great Britain, which are two of the most unequal societies in Europe.

67% of single parents are in poverty
Catholics are 1.4 times more likely to live in poverty than Protestants
43% of Sinn Fein supporters live in poverty
30% of SDLP supporters live in poverty
32% of DUP supporters live in poverty
19% of UUP supporters live in poverty
(37.4 per cent) of Northern Ireland’s children are growing up in poor households.
Over half (56 %) of households containing one or more disabled people are in poverty, compared with 29 per cent containing no-one with a disability

http://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/releases/2003/933.html

by Duine Eile Sun Aug 28, 2005 23:27 Belfast

Those stats only tell half the story. The other half is that some people - both Catholic and Protestant are doing very well altogether and the biggest gap in the North is not between Protestant and Catholic but between the "have yachts" and the "have nots". While Catholics ARE 1.4 times more likely to live in poverty than Protestants, the closure of the industries that used to not have a Catholic about the place means that Protestant working class areas are now moving their way up all the poverty figures and while 47% of poor households are Catholic, 46% are Protestant [of course, there are more Protestant households overall, so Catholics ARE disproportionately poor]. However, in the "New Northern Ireland", all of us are Taigs - the top fifth in the North is FIVE times better off than the bottom fifth, the top tenth is NINE times better off than the bottom quarter!

BTW, the tendency in the South to just exclude the Northern six counties from any discussion of "Ireland" is really annoying. There is an article in today's Sunday Tribune about Limerick as the "murder capital" of Ireland. Now maybe it does have more murders per capita than Belfast, but the article only dealt with southern cities and the North was AGAIN just ignored on the map of the whole island. Do ye not want your fourth green field back???!!!??

by iosaf Mon Dec 12, 2005 13:26

"The poverty threshold was estimated at €9,680 per annum or €185 per week in 2004"

prosperity does not mean liberty.
precarity does not mean security.
equity does not mean equality.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1212/poverty.html

by phil - n/a Sun Feb 08, 2015 08:42

Combat Poverty is a Government Agency. Its statistics cannot be relied upon when the same Department is responsible for creating the poverty it purportedly surveys.

by phil - n/a Sun Feb 08, 2015 09:03

The Department falsifies data when it decides, for instance with habitual residency conditions, that people can be resident in the country,but,as far as the state is concerned, they are not in Ireland and therefore not only do they not qualify for welfare or child benefit, but they do not exist.