Combat Poverty Ireland map.

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Thursday August 25, 2005 16:19

by the long game

Established in 1986, "Combat Poverty is the sole national statutory organisation in Ireland dedicated to advising on ways to prevent and eliminate poverty and social exclusion."

They campaign for a fairer distribution of resources and offer a lot of information on poverty in the state.

They have just issued a report on rural poverty.

the darker the area the poorer it is. see explanatory notes in the article

Their site gives credibility to what most people know by instinct. The west and north of the state are the poorest.

Local authority tenants are the poorest.

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They want us all to consider that :-

"A higher proportion of local authority tenants are in poverty (32.4% compared to the average 6.2%). Tenants in private rented housing have twice the average poverty rate (12.6% compared to the average 6.2%).

A higher proportion of outright owners are in poverty compared to owners with a mortgage. This is related to the relatively high proportion of elderly in this category."

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explanatory notes to the map

"Map 4.4: Disparities in Income Poverty and Deprivation of Basic Necessities by Local Authority Area

This map illustrates the disparities in poverty across local authority areas in Ireland. Figures show the ratio of poverty in each local authority area to the national figure. Figures greater than one indicate a higher than national average poverty rate while figures less than one indicate a lower than average rate of poverty.

The higher poverty rate in the Border, Midland and Western region is highlighted by local authorities with above average rates of poverty such as Leitrim, Longford, Mayo and Donegal, in particular, which has the highest in the country (90% above the average).

Lower rates of poverty are evident in Dublin and the Mid-East. Dublin City has a poverty rate which is equivalent to the national average, but the surrounding local authorities such as Fingal, Dublin South, Kildare, Meath and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, in particular, (60% below the average) are all well below the average in poverty terms.

It is also evident that the levels of poverty are higher in larger cities (Dublin, Cork, Limerick & Waterford) than in the surrounding counties with the exception of Galway City.

The map is sourced from the Irish National Survey of Housing Quality, 2001/2002."

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here is an Irish Times article on the report
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0825/3029558736HM1POVERTY.html

the material in this article is © copyright of the Combat Poverty Agency website and belongs to the Combat Poverty Agency. This material may be used for private non-commercial use only provided that any copy retains all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original material. Which is exactly what (((i)))'ve done.
aint that sweet. Now note that the political representation of the "poor areas" does not amount to a serious threat to the present regime iin the Dail or that the "poor areas" may be counted as politicised by one party and one party alone yet.

Combat Poverty Agency
Bridgewater Centre
Conyngham Road
Islandbridge
Dublin 8
Ireland

Tel: + 353 1 670 6746
Fax: +353 1 670 6760
Email: [email protected]

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Comments (11 of 11)

Bréaga, deargbhréaga is straidrimh

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?

money money

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.

Tá siad ann

Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:21

"provide jobs"?

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

CPA and poverty traps

by Walter Greenwood

Fri Aug 26, 2005 15:47

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

Not the full story

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 .

"the darker the area the poorer it is" says the caption.

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?

no map but some info.

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

Northern Poverty

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???!!!??

Irish state Central Statistics Office show that almost 7% of population deemed 'consistently poor'

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

combat poverty

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.

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.

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