Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

Frankly, I am not interested in dealing with people who are using all sorts of very strange measurements to come up with certain figures. The fact is that we are targeting a huge amount of our resources to deal with children in poverty. In respect of the two big groups, children in families where there is unemployment and the children of single parents, there are two pilot schemes being carried out at the moment, one in Coolock and Kilkenny, which involve all the services working together to try and move——

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