Derek Keating (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I join with the Chairman and members in welcoming the Minister of State and his officials. I have two questions. One concerns employment under Europe 2020, which the Minister of State has, however, covered particularly well. The other concerns child poverty. We had aimed to lift 70,000 children out of poverty in Ireland by 2020. There has been an increase in the number, which is over 100,000. Does the Minister of State have any specific measures that would help to solve that growing problem and succeed where we have not done so before? How confident would he be about those measures?