John Paul O'Shea (Cork North-West, Fine Gael)

On my own behalf, I very much welcome the report that was published last week demonstrating that cash in kind benefits significantly reduce child income poverty and deprivation. I am interested in core welfare payments and the need to look at everything in the round, including the hot school meals programme, the free books scheme, free GP care for children under eight, the medical card scheme, the increased funding for a national childcare scheme and so on. How does the ESRI measure the impact of all of those broader programmes on child poverty?