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

Obviously, many transactions are now carried out on cards which might not have been previously. While I cannot speak for anybody else, many people do not carry cash in the way that they did previously. Many people in my community live a mostly cash-based lives because they are in receipt of small sums of money. Is there a problem with the data from that aspect? Will they truly reflect what is happening in lower-income households? They tend to take their money out at the beginning of the week and parcel it out very carefully.