Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)

That would be welcome. Incorporating it into the targets would actually be effective rather than just highlighting and pointing at it and all the rest of it.

I will ask about the groups that are left out. The ESRI Child Poverty on the Island of Ireland report mentions specific groups, such as children from Traveller and Roma communities, as obviously facing a much higher risk of poverty. However, the SILC data does not always include kids who are living in emergency accommodation or who are left in IPAS. They could be living in tents or cars or wherever it is they are living if they are not living in a household. Five thousand children are homeless, and that is recorded homeless. That is not even the ones who are in domestic violence shelters or sleeping in overcrowded accommodation. If they are not in a household and the Department is not capturing them, is Mr. Egan a bit concerned that the data he is working off is actually leaving people out? It is definitely leaving out 5,000 children, which I would have thought is a big enough chunk of children. Would Mr. Egan be concerned that it is leaving out groups like Traveller and Roma children - people who do not live in a traditional bricks and mortar dwelling. Those children, who are probably experiencing levels of deprivation, poverty and exclusion that we could not even imagine are not really part of the Department's dataset. Is Mr. Egan concerned that the Department is missing a chunk of children in terms of the child poverty targets?