Dr. Tom Boland:

I thank the Deputy very much for the questions and very interesting points. To draw two of them together, the question about the SEAI grants is partially a social welfare issue but also partially a housing issue. The question of the cost of disability payment, and I am not in any way advanced in thinking about this aspect, clearly seems like something whereby it is a Department of Health issue and there is a need for an external assessor to calculate the cost of disability. Representations and means testing would seem like the wrong way to go about that. It seems like an area where a specialist would be needed. Regarding the childcare issue my colleague just brought up, and I could be wrong in this, I think it is still technically under the remit of the Department of Justice. Is this still the case?