Mr. Niall Egan:

The first question I will take is the one on the difference between the output indicators and the impact indicators. In the structure of the Public Sector Programme Report, PSPR, the way we approached the output indicators in the Department is that they are very measurable. It is about claim load, the number of applications we make and pay, and the number of payments we have. They are defined. The impact indicators focus on the consequence of making those payments. Our impact indicators under each of the headings have focused on poverty-related statistics. With regard to the reference the Deputy quoted from the briefing material, while we are achieving our targets by and large across the board on the output indicators, on foot of the most recent survey on income and living conditions, SILC, 2022 data, there has been an increase in poverty levels. That is what that line in the briefing referred to. There are multiple reasons for that. It is the way poverty is measured but it is something, as I said in the opening statement, we are very conscious of in the Department.