{"id":652081,"date":"2026-10-12T03:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/652081\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T03:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:46:23","slug":"irish-government-hasnt-thought-about-supporting-bigger-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/652081\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Government hasn&#8217;t thought about supporting bigger families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary, who is responsible for pensions, has admitted that he has not \u201cgiven it a lot of thought\u201d regarding whether the State should support people in having larger families to combat the ageing population.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in response to questions from Gript this week, the Fianna F\u00e1il Minister said his Government \u201chaven\u2019t actually\u201d considered specific policies to assist people in having bigger families as a way of counteracting Ireland\u2019s ageing population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary, who is responsible for pensions, has admitted that he has not \u201cgiven it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14258,206902,72,5858,206903,61,60],"class_list":["post-652081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ben-scallan","tag-birthrates","tag-business","tag-demographics","tag-fertility-rate","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}