Mr. Niall Egan:

We are aware of that issue and the Deputy is absolutely right to highlight it. The issue is that the methodology is with the Central Statistics Office, which actually has to be consistent with the Eurostat methodology in order for it to report poverty data to Eurostat to allow comparisons across member states. It is an issue I know the Central Statistics Office is looking at, as are we in the Department and colleagues in the Department of the Taoiseach in the child poverty well-being unit. How can we engage, particularly with the Traveller and Roma cohort, to increase the sample size within the SILC? The issue is the number of homeless children currently who are not included in the SILC methodology.