Mr. Ciarán Nugent:

The Eurostat sustainable development indicators on poverty uses at-risk-of-poverty and social exclusion. Approximately 20% of the population is included in that, which is more for children. It is more than one in five children, without housing costs. It is a deprivation indicator around the cost of living. Over 1 million people in the Republic of Ireland are at risk of poverty and social exclusion. That has pretty much stayed steady for the last five or six years. As we have grown and as the employment rate has gone up, that has still maintained, so there is inequality straight off the bat there. We have seen that the go-to Gini indicator of inequality has been fairly steady; it has gone down. It is also based on a household survey, which does not include top earners and bottom earners. IF we look at-----