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

I understand. That is a point very well made.

On the issue of the inclusion or exclusion of housing costs in the calculations, the Government is going to set a target and work towards it. On the Government side, there is obviously an acceptable level of child poverty. Given that rents are rising at a faster rate than anything else that has to be purchased, should the Department be looking at ways to include rents and general housing costs?