I think there would have been a prevailing attitude in Ireland 20 years ago that if we solved unemployment, poverty would be solved, and the fact that the economy turned around and we had full employment really concentrated the mind on the structural issues that were preventing certain groups from escaping from poverty. Then the establishment of targets had a huge impact on budgetary policy and social welfare rates.
I think the bigger challenge in terms of tackling poverty, which is ongoing and is addressed in the current national action plan, is around the delivery of services, how services are delivered to people in poverty.