Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I will follow up with a question because Dr. Doorley has raised an interesting point. This is something I asked in last week's session and I believe the answer I received was very much based on economic data. I am very mindful that in Ireland we sometimes do not necessarily have access to the type of data we need to make these kinds of big public and civic decisions. I suspect part of that impression I have formed comes from my sitting on the health committee. It seems we do not really have access to adequate amounts of disaggregated data around health and sometimes ethnicity. I know representatives of the Traveller community often speak about the lack of aggregated data around what they experience. Would it be fair to say from Dr. Doorley's description that the economic "number data" might be there but the more complex information around the social aspects, or that kind of data, may not be as available?