I welcome the fact that the Tánaiste is open to assigning Dáil time to a debate on the findings of the report. It would be a very useful discussion to have. Try as she might to soften their edges, the findings are shocking, particularly in regard to child poverty and poverty in families headed by single parents. There is probably nothing very new in those findings but they are shocking nonetheless particularly as the Tánaiste proposes to increase the burden on single parent homes in the near future.

When can the House expect to see the consolidated domestic violence legislation? In terms of the findings and outcomes of the Constitutional Convention, we have raised repeatedly with the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach the huge disappointment that having heralded the convention as a significant initiative of reform, the Government is now indifferent to the deliberations of the citizen participants in particular. It is clear now that we will not see the range of issues discussed and decided on brought to referendum. It appears we may not even see Dáil debates on the full range of issues. If we are to see those debates, can the Tánaiste tell us when they will happen?

The Government has published legislation on the issue of amendment of the voting age and the removal of the blasphemy provision, which I see in the new legislative programme. Does the Government intend to publish legislation on the outstanding Constitutional Convention commitments? I refer in particular to gender equality, the women-in-the-home clause, extending the right to vote in presidential elections to citizens resident outside the State, and on enshrining full economic, social and cultural rights.

As I said to Deputy Kelleher, I am happy to facilitate a debate on the SILC report. The critical issue relates to poverty and it is important as we approach 2016 that we do everything as a country to secure an economic recovery that gets people of working age who are entirely dependent on social welfare incomes into employment. The best way to help lone parents is to help them into employment when their children are settled in school. When the youngest child is seven or more, a parent should be encouraged - as happens in the UK and Northern Ireland - to go back in particular to education, retrain and get a job. That is the absolute best way to help people who are parenting on their own with children. That is why the success of the Government in having an additional 80,000 people go back to work is one of the key indicators of a recovery taking hold in Ireland.

I am very aware of the fact that not every family has experienced recovery, which has been most difficult for those who are unemployed, including the long-term unemployed. The Deputy expressed concern about child poverty. Notwithstanding the economic difficulties this country has experienced and which have been very hard on people, I have prioritised in a very tight budget situation the weekly core social welfare benefits.

What about large families?

The SILC report shows that has reduced the number of those at risk of poverty in Ireland by 60% because of the social welfare supports.

Every year, I have also prioritised putting direct funding into additional school meals, particularly school breakfast clubs so that when children arrive in school, they can get breakfast.

This is a debate.

This is wasting our time.

What has this to do with the Order of Business?

On the legislation.

On the legislation, the Government takes the reports of the Constitutional Convention with the utmost seriousness and we were very happy to make an historic announcement yesterday on this State and its citizens having the opportunity to vote on marriage equality. Yesterday I also introduced transgender legislation into the Seanad. The Government has taken the issue of social reform very seriously.

Are we having a debate on it now?

There is no legislation on the voting age or blasphemy listed for this period because the focus will be on the two referendums announced by the Government, namely, marriage equality, a very important social issue on which voters will make a decision, and the lowering of the age at which a person can stand for election as President from 35 to 21.

It is a very important issue.

I call Deputy Mathews and I appeal for brevity.