Mr. Gareth Hetherington:

I agree with Professor Doyle's point about waiting lists and the health service. There is also another point I should have made about welfare payments. There is currently a benefits trap for people with caring responsibilities and those who are on welfare. They may want to go to a further education college to engage in training but that would put their benefits at risk. Once an individual's benefits are put at risk, he or she will withdraw from training, so there is no benefit saving from that policy. A policy should definitely be taken that is more sympathetic to retention of benefits when someone wants to engage in training to make themselves more work ready.