The Department of Social Protection has published a new paper as part of a research programme between the ESRI and the Department of Social Protection: Technical paper on minimum essential standards of living, poverty and deprivation in Ireland.
This study examines how households’ income compares to an independently determined benchmark of the minimum needed to meet essential expenditures in Ireland. The benchmark is the Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) established by the Vincentian MESL Research Centre at SVP.
The study is available to download here.