Mr. J.P. Mulherin:

Yes. As I have said, we are happy to work with the committee on those indicators. I will speak to the points made by Deputy Ó Cuív, specifically about RAPID. He knows more about RAPID than I ever will, so I will not go into too much detail. That programme was replaced by something else, which was the community enhancement programme. On top of that, the Department is working on specific and innovative programmes to try to address the types of things just mentioned. There is the empowering communities programme, which has picked those areas of highest deprivation and is bringing community development workers and the community development approach, to work with communities in specific disadvantaged areas with high levels of deprivation. A number of different ones across the country have been picked. There is also a community development programme working with particular cohorts of individuals along similar lines. The programme is working with three or four different Traveller communities across the country to address the particular challenges faced by that cohort.

I would say there is quite a lot happening under different programmes. Granted, they are different from what has been done before. We need to look continuously at what they are achieving and measure the impact. There are a number of things happening. There is also a social inclusion group working across government to try to bring the different pieces together, to look at what different programmes are achieving and try to do that in a coherent way.