Mr. John Hayes:

In fairness, that is a valid question. The fair deal is a statutory entitlement and the home support schemes are not a statutory entitlement. The Minister, Deputy Harris, has alluded to this issue in the past ten days or so whereby he stated that the Government, to give people a proper choice about where they want to live and to support them at home, would have to look again at the idea of putting the home support model on a statutory basis in the same way as fair deal is on a statutory basis.