Ms Emily Logan:

We are coming at it with human rights and equality implications in mind more than the legal challenge. Professor Mullally mentioned all the long-term positives associated with financial independence. We are creating dependency on the State among a group who do not want to be dependent on the State. We are setting ourselves up for a difficulty in terms of integration in the future. Therefore, we are examining the long-term implications of people not having access to the labour market more than we would examine the implications for legal challenge.