Published date: 09 Aug 2024
We welcome the commitment from the Child Poverty and Wellbeing Programme Office at the Department of the Taoiseach that Budget 2025 ‘will seek to support and deepen the focus on child poverty and well-being’.20 Building on the measures introduced in Budget 2024, we are calling for Budget 2025 to be a Children’s Budget – that places children and families most at risk of poverty and disadvantage at the very forefront of decision-making. In this submission we set out the actions that Government departments can take to make this commitment a reality.