Dr. Devesh Singh:

The Deputy’s question is reasonable because we have to be prepared for this whenever it comes into effect. Currently, we have 32 full-time permanently employed doctors in the medical assessment section. We are covering all 15 disability schemes and delivering approximately 95,000 to 100,000 assessments and opinions. The Green Paper would cover invalidity and blind pensions, for which we have a capacity to conduct more than 45,000 to 50,000 assessments. Currently, we do not engage in categorisation. If we introduce categorisation, it will require extra time, so the Deputy is right to say that we may need to increase our human resource capacity. We can anticipate and prepare for that, and I am confident that we will be able to deliver on that demand when it arises.