Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the issues of which I am thinking are political decisions but it seems that to have gone after key areas of inequality, to set up channels to do that and to set in train the process in other areas might have been important. I note that a point made in the papers we have been given or in one of the witnesses' contributions is that in terms of cost-benefit analysis it is a huge positive for a country to deal with these issues and ensure that we get the input of all citizens, and that is the case in terms of GDP or GNI or whatever it is now called. Has the Department done any costings on benefits of the programmes in the six areas?