Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

I hope we will be in that situation because everything we are doing is to improve the value from the effort we put into this place. As we move to more integrated activity and as we rationalise some of the services the community welfare officers provide, it will free up resources for us to deploy. More welfare officers will become more fully involved in control activity. Every committee welfare officer has a control responsibility as well as basic responsibilities. Control activity begins at the point of claim. Every deciding officer in the Department has a control dimension and we have been reinforcing this point heavily over the past year.