Professor Alan Barrett:

The Deputy has made a number of points which I will run through. On the point about the switch model being outdated, the switch model is continuously updated. The dataset used is the European Union survey on living and income conditions, which is collected in Ireland and throughout the rest of Europe and that data is constantly fed in. When I made the point that the model was developed and maintained, a significant amount of the ESRI investment on this, using the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform grant-in-aid, is in ensuring that the data is up to date. We have had discussions with a range of Departments to see if the funding for switch can be increased to allow for a quicker updating and also for the pooling of data across waves. We are in a pretty good ---