Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

I thank everyone for the presentation. I congratulate them on the foundation's anniversary. I apologise as I will have to leave shortly because I am speaking in the Chamber but I do have a couple of questions. The Eurofound website has a breadth of information. It has some interesting information I was not at all aware of such as reports on monitoring access to services for children and their living conditions. My question is on Eurofound’s remit. It intersects between the government sector, businesses and trade unions. How much of its role is proactive? Is it its job to act as a service provider to those different sectoral interests to give governments, businesses and trade unions the information they need or is it precluded by its founding charter from being more proactive? I say this coming from a journalistic background. These days there is rarely even a subeditor on a newspaper. Is there a way of spoon-feeding journalists to get some of this information in the public domain that would put pressure on governments in a separate way as well as showing the EU is responding to people’s needs?

When will Dr. Marie Hyland’s presentation from yesterday on housing affordability and sustainability be available for others to look at?