John Paul O'Shea (Cork North-West, Fine Gael)

We are out of time anyway. I thank the Community Platform which represents 30 organisations. Other members have said it but, as Chair, I want to say we are very grateful for this group. We deal with the 30 organisations daily through our own work. I thank the Community Platform for coming in this morning and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for being part of our committee and discussing poverty in general but also child poverty. I thank the witnesses for their contributions and for providing the briefing materials in advance. This has made our job a whole lot easier in coming to conclusions on where we are at with child poverty.