Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Culhane raised an important point. The data collected declines significantly after gender and age in terms of the data set. Gender has 68 data sets, age has 65, but if we look at family status there are 19. There is that bit of a cliff edge. In fact the next closest to age in terms of data sets is race, which is at 26. There is that cliff edge of falling off of the collected data. Is there an agreed data structure? As you said, this is a live document, and it needs to be a live document. In terms of the questions asked and the information taken from it, is there a pre-existing agreement that certain questions will be asked now and that will grow by a certain percentage the next time these questions are put out there? Is there any engagement with other partners such as the national data infrastructure champions group? Are people like that involved in setting the questions? When we look at equality budgeting it is a really technical exercise and it needs to have that strategy attached to it so that the structural inequality that it is designed to address will actually be addressed. Does that make sense?