Professor Alan Barrett:

I do. I am getting wise now that Deputy Lisa Chambers has accepted the paper on child care subsidies. I am going to be really cautious in responding to Deputy O'Connell. I emphasise that all of this is complicated. Here is the deal about the data that exists. We have data on earnings by gender. A colleague of ours at the institute who is currently on secondment to the OECD compiled a paper that looked at the gender impact of austerity measures. One needs to apply a range of assumptions to this. She was able to conduct a study that showed how various things affected various people. The fact that she did this suggests to me in principle that the type of analysis the Deputy is talking about can be done, but it is complicated and would take a certain amount of time.