I think the issue there is a general one and not specific to Ireland, but there are particular aspects that became very sharply focused in Ireland. It has to do with how the definition of poverty is adjusted for growth in income and increasing income over time. Those are general issues related to the low-income measure that's used or the relative income poverty measure that's used, which is called “at risk of poverty” by EU. Those are all automatically increased in line with a measure of average income or median income perhaps.
The consistent poverty measure is a newer and more recently developed measure. It's not designed to be something that is fixed for all time, although it is in the same tradition, in the sense that the consistent poverty measure is also trying to capture people being poor, meaning they are excluded from the ordinary life of society and so on. That's the same idea, but in planting that over what we've had in Ireland--a very rapid growth period--there are issues as to how well that's capturing it. For my part, as an analyst, it makes me cautious about attributing sole rights to one measure of poverty. I think these different measures are telling us different things. That doesn't mean we throw up our hands, but it means it is telling something about what's going on in a complex situation, and we need to interpret those carefully.
Obviously in this context I can't say a whole lot more, but we're willing to do so through email, if need be, as with any other matter.