I suppose that in terms of communities we would have a very strong belief that people experiencing poverty have a big role to play in working together to tackle poverty within their own communities, but they need support and resources to do that. Ireland has a widespread community development program with community development projects, and I think there are 292 community development projects around the country in which people are undertaking anti-poverty work at the community level. There's also a ministry responsible for community development.
At another level, there is a major program of work happening through the local authorities, with many of the services that people living in poverty need to access. I suppose that has created its own challenges insofar as policies were being developed at a national level but then needed to be translated and implemented and delivered at a local level. Combat Poverty has worked over the past seven years with local authorities to help them build their capacity to develop local anti-poverty strategies that translate the goals of the national strategies to a local level. That has had its challenges, but it's been supported by a number of structures at a national level. For example, there's a local government social inclusion steering group that operates at a national level and brings together a number of government departments, so that would be another issue.