Dr. Barra Roantree:

I forgot to mention one thing to Deputy Ryan. A report was published by my colleagues at the ESRI earlier this week which drew attention to one thing that might be especially relevant in this context and in thinking about this, namely, the level of the grant for those participating in education. There is a parallel there in how in the 1990s the State pension was neglected and fell behind the level of wider living standards. The same has been the case for quite a long time for the grant available to students participating in education. It has fallen significantly behind. I think that was one anomaly to which the ESRI drew attention in its report on this released on Monday. The report also referred to the levels of jobseeker's payments for younger adults. Those are two things that follow up on and link into what Dr. Collins was talking about.