Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have two brief questions. I see Deputy Durkan is back with us, and I know Deputy Canney wants to come back in. I will get in my two questions because I do not want to take up too much of the committee's time.

I will cut to the chase and ask my first question. One of the things I am interested in is how many of our population who are in deprivation or below the poverty line we would expect to be lifted out of that poverty through indexation. I notice that one of the first things the NERI's submission states is that price indexation could be seen just as a proxy for a standstill policy. I take the point that this is a complementary policy to other services and other cost-of-living issues but, in bald terms, will indexation significantly impact levels of poverty across the country?