Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----unless there are comparisons and different considerations. This is very advanced compared with the Central Statistics Office, CSO, and the Survey on Income and Living Conditions, SILC, which are pretty much in the dark ages. It is a survey of 6,000 people one and a half to two and a-half years in arrears. It means all the data on poverty in Ireland are a minimum of two to three years old at a time when we are coming out of recession. The witnesses are much better than the CSO, to be honest. It is a problem for everybody as we are trying to ground where we are. Perhaps the witnesses might help us in that regard.