Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

If it was more expensive we would change. There is more than cost to consider, there is the value and the overall quality and so on. There is a market for home help and home support. When we got substantial additional investment in home support not all areas were able to expand into that through directly employed or voluntary agencies at the time. We now have a market and a requirement to go to tender. Part of the market will be driven by private organisations or at least by competition. The not for profits are competing with the private organisations for the home support market but I agree we want to get a balance.