ANGRY TDs yesterday expressed concern over the abolition of the Combat Poverty Agency (CPA) and its merger within a government department as it was revealed that 40% of the agency’s staff have been lost.

A database of primary school pupils must be set up to track up to 1,000 young people who fail to progress to secondary school, a children’s charity demanded today.

The Irish Wheelchair Association has urged the Government to double the disability allowance in a bid to tackle poverty among disabled people.