Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable.

CSO data

Claim: Achieving

A state pension was received by over one in eleven people in Ireland in 2019. The non-contributory state pension was received by 2% of people while over four times as many people received the contributory state pension, at 9.1% of the population in 2019. Jobseekers Allowance and Benefits were received by almost 3% of people in 2019.

They do not disaggregate by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work injury victims, and the poor and the vulnerable as per indicator 1.3.1.

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