Ms Geraldine Cahill:

I see that there is plenty of research in this country. People doing PhDs carry out research every day of the week . It is all available in places like Trinity College Dublin. We know people who are doing research. It is about getting people within the Government to read that research and interpret it in a way that applies to policy. There seems to be a gap in research into policy.

The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, used to do much work in this area. I am not sure it is being funded to do any work in that area at the moment . Again, that is a lack of knowledge on my part but it is also that idea of not giving us full information because we do not know. We used to have a multi-stakeholder national breastfeeding committee but that is gone. It does not exist anymore. We do not, therefore, know what is happening in the field. That data needs to be gathered. Again, however, it is also the Government's-----