Mr. Rónán Hession:

I am happy to address that. We have had the back to work family dividend in place for other schemes for a number of years. How it works is that, where you have a primary claim associated with a child support payment, what we used to call an increase for a qualified child, when you close that claim, you still keep the child element for another year and half of it for a second year. This is an attempt to smooth the transition for people with children who are going back to work through a tapering off of the payment. It is not that large a scheme but we have used it for jobseeker's schemes and other schemes. Ms Kennedy has just advised me that approximately 43,000 child support payments are currently being made to people on disability schemes. We hope this group will benefit from this measure. Those exiting these payments because they are going back to work will be allowed to keep the child element for a full year and half of it for a second year.