Mr. Kieran Culhane:

I will address the Deputy's comment on data from the Department of Social Protection. We do not check individual data. Each Department has responsibility for its own data.

I will echo Dr. Elliott's comments. We offer advice and we are developing an equality data strategy to try to encourage Departments to collect the right data and manage those correctly. We use the principle of collect once, use often. The Deputy's example shows there are gaps in the system at present. Not all the data systems are mature enough for the data we need on disability. It is something we are working to try to improve at present across the entire public sector.