Let us remember what inequality means. Inequality means that one cannot afford to pay for a proper health service and one must depend on the State health service. What the State has decreed is that if one is single and has an income in excess of €122 per week, one is deemed to be rich enough to be able to pay for one's own health care. Somebody on €123 per week is deemed to be able to afford to pay €65 per month for prescription medicine. They do not have to buy second-hand clothes nor do they fall into the other indicators of consistent poverty, and I am glad for their sake that they do not. However, a society which decides that a single person on €125 per week can afford to pay €65 per month for prescription medicine and €40 or €50 every time they visit an out-patient department in a hospital may well be doing something about consistent poverty but it is doing nothing about inequality in society.