Ms Susanna Lyons:

I will break it down for the committee. That figure is what they report as the number of people employed but that is because tier two organisations are predominantly care and support organisations which would have much higher levels of front-line staff. When we saw these very high numbers, we asked specifically how many people the tier two and tier three organisations employed directly in the provision of housing and the total reported was 1,236 employees. It is important to point out that 44% of tier one organisations are voluntary bodies and they have no staff. Those people make an extraordinary contribution-----