Ms Brigid Quirke:

The data was all compared with Survey on Lifestyle and Attitude to Nutrition, SLÁN, data, so it picked the most marginalised in the State, namely, people with medical cards or in receipt of GMS services. We did not compare Traveller data with the whole national level data but with the population in receipt of GMS services. It still shows that Travellers are well below the level of even the poorest in society.