Mr. Cormac Staunton:

It equivalises the income and assigns an income to each member of the household which distorts things in terms of equality because one is not looking at the distribution of incomes given. Different families on the same income will look differently in that distribution. That is the data. One can see from it how many people are over €75,000 and it is a very small number. If is above €75,000 one is in the top 10%. That is not the middle. I guess when welfare incomes are included one is talking about adding between €8,000 and €12,000 per adult in the first two columns in the data. That is in answer to what is the middle.