Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

Yes. We have to pay as we have a signed contract. I do not want to go into too much detail about my second point as I am conscious that there is much debate and discussion about this issue.

I regret we ever used the term "emergency accommodation". What the Department has done on Achill Island is book hotel rooms for people to stay in. While we do not want people to stay in hotel rooms and we want to move away from that, in the short term we needed to book hotel rooms. It is a hotel that is normally occupied by people and we want to put people in the rooms. It is a simple issue, but clearly-----