The council provides advice to the minister in a number of ways. Sometimes we meet with her. The other way we provide information is to publish the two regular reports we publish. They're basically statistical reports with some indication of recommendations in them. One is Poverty Profile, which provides the most comprehensive look at the dimensions of poverty in this country. The second is Welfare Incomes. In both of those publications, which we provide to the minister and to the public, this year the emphasis has been on a recommendation for a national anti-poverty strategy.
To date the council members and the chair have not had the opportunity to meet with the minister since that recommendation was put forward, and we haven't received other responses. The council is meeting again in October. We hope there may be some opportunity to engage the minister on this.