Mr. Brendan Burgess:

I am very clear that we as a society have a responsibility to help people if they cannot afford their accommodation and are living in appropriate accommodation, and we do this by giving them what I call the mortgage assistance payment. I am very clear on this. I say the figure is 10,000 but I might be completely wrong. It might be 3,000. It would be bizarre for it to be 3,000 but let us say it is 3,000. I want this group of people to vacate their houses. They have not paid anything. They can pay and they can rent somewhere else. I am actually not terribly concerned about them. They are the people who have paid nothing for seven years. I have been paying their mortgage and so has everybody else here. We have been paying their mortgage for the past seven years. I want that to stop.