Mr. R?n?n Hession:

I agree with Deputy Clarke. We do not have good data on what happens to people when they leave our system other than if they are on one of our payments. For the purposes of checking eligibility, we have access to Revenue to know what they are earning and what their correct disregards are, but we rely on them if they leave our system entirely. When we have relationships with employers and we run a recruitment campaign, we try to track how many people are recruited, how many stay on and so on, but it is trickier. I agree with the Deputy that one of the problems we have is that if people leave our schemes to go into employment, we do not want them going into precarious low-paid, short-term employment. We must try to make sure it is quality employment.

I know we are stuck for time, but I have yet to address the Deputy's final question on the cost of disability.