Mr. R?n?n Hession:

In the context of the PRB we have not, as I said, at this point gone through a read-through of the other social welfare schemes in that way. It is an interesting point and we will certainly examine that. What we see with jobseeker's benefit is even at nine months, it is still quite a short-term scheme for most people. Even with the duration that is there, 70% of people are done on the scheme in the first six months and average durations are three months. Thus, there is a huge churn on jobseeker's benefit. A certain number of people then go on. On the longer-term need for training, we will of course have to look not only at training but at the public employment service and the Intreo support we give to people. We will have to look at all that, because this is a very big change; it is a level shift for the system. To some extent, there is a limit to how much we can put into a straw man proposal in terms of enough detail that people have an informed view of what it could look like without trying to get into too much scheme design and technical detail.