Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

——can be taken on board in conjunction with those of all the other groups that have emerged since the Combat Poverty Agency was established. All these groups play a valuable role, particularly those in the community and voluntary area, although the community and voluntary pillar was unheard of at the time the agency was set up. The amount of statistical information we get on a national as well as an international level from the CSO, the ESRI, the OECD and the EU——

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