Professor Niamh Moloney:

I thank the Deputy for his question, which I can be completely unequivocal in answering. We are absolutely in the business of making serious, practical, evidence-based recommendations that we very much hope will stand the test of time and be sustainable over ten, 15 or 20 years. We absolutely want to make a serious contribution to how public policy works in this country as regards tax and welfare. Our mission is to produce specific recommendations. We are aiming to have recommendations that are credible, coherent and evidence based. We are animated by the sense that we can make a serious contribution and make recommendations for the political process to work with. We take this with the utmost seriousness.