Peter Roche (Galway East, Fine Gael)

One of the things most of us will have to be cognisant of is the prevalence of drugs and maybe drink. I am trying to tease out something. Would that be a contributing factor when one is doing an analysis on child poverty? Is there much consideration given to what use is being made of the income that families get? In other words, is there a possibility that there are problems that may not be identified in that some families, for one reason or another, have a tendency to spend much of their disposable income on feeding that habit? Is it is a kind of loaded question but I would imagine that somewhere, in the overall scheme of things, there would be issues presenting as a consequence of that.