Ms Karen Kiernan:

Maybe my colleague, Dr. Keilthy, could come in if I miss anything.

We believe what is needed is a national child poverty action plan. This could then, at an administrative level, be potentially rolled out at a local level as well through existing local structures to try and reach the children in need around the country.

A big block is the silent nature of work on policies that cut across each other between Departments and agencies. This happens all the time. A parent might get a support in one way and it is taken off the parent in another way. It is not co-ordinated. The citizen, the parent or person is not at the centre of the process; it is the other way round.

There is a really big issue with not seeing that one-parent families are different. They cannot achieve what two-parent families can. They need additional supports. It should be okay morally, ethically, socially and politically to do that. We still have some mentality from the culture of mother and baby homes - judgment around people parenting on their own - that is very unhelpful and can block and get in the way of some of this progress.

Those are the things that do not work. I do not know if Dr. Keilthy wants to say anything about what works or if I am putting her on the spot there.