Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will turn to Ms Bennett. The report Social Justice Ireland does each year is a really important and powerful waymarker in terms of making sure that attention is drawn to progress on the sustainable development goals. There are a few ways of looking at it. I note that Social Justice Ireland respected that we placed ninth overall out of 14. On the positive side of it, I note Ireland's current SDG dashboard within the report. There is too much red on that dashboard, which relate to places where we have major challenges. Obviously, areas such as climate action stand out for me. However, at least the arrows are pointing in the right direction.

I want to ask a question about whether we are comparing like with like in Social Justice Ireland's assessment. I am looking at the assessment from the CSO in the voluntary national review, VNR, report, for example, on SDG goal 1, which is to end poverty in all its forms. According to the CSO, data have been sourced for all of those targets within that goal. As well as that, all targets are being achieved. It is therefore a clean slate, as far as the CSO is concerned. However, Social Justice Ireland's assessment is quite different and I want to make sure we are comparing like with like. Ms Bennett referenced that target 1.1, which is a $1.25 per day. Of course, you could not apply that target in a meaningful way to a developed economy. On the other hand, one could do so by saying we got there and managed to clear the bar of $1.25. Yet, there are other sub-targets within that goal. I could run through them if I had another screen, but I have maxed out the number of screens I currently have in front of me. Could the representatives explain their assessment to me? Let us take the example of zero poverty, which bears on the work of this committee. How is their assessment at such a variance to the assessment by the CSO that we have seen in the VNR report?