Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)

Ms Bayliss has gone into some of this and I am aware I missed some of the meeting. We dealt previously with some of these issues with regard to equality legislation, and it is about how we deal with the issue of equality for people so they are not impacted detrimentally by socioeconomic disadvantage. It is how we build this into the framework in a way that works and is reasonable. I will be quite clear that I would like the State to be held to account with regard to equality legislation and its failure to intervene, particularly when we have a large number of families and children in circumstances whereby additional interventions are needed to improve their lives and get them to a place where there is a future trajectory that involves education, employment and a better life than what they could be facing. This is a big ask of any legislation. We can draw up perfect legislation but without resources, some of it will be meaningless and we will fight many cases. While we might win minor battles, we will not improve things sufficiently.