Mr. Brian Purcell:

-----in any great detail at the alternatives. Our objective is to get the Bill enacted and to streamline the process, thereby coming to conclusions on cases and gradually the numbers will decline. The gradual reduction in numbers should also facilitate an improvement which, we hope, will enable us to facilitate some improvements in the system in place. If the Deputy is asking if we are considering a situation whereby people would be removed from direct provision and put in some alternative system, at the moment we do not have any plans to do so. After the Bill is enacted, we will obviously look at how it is operating, the impact it is having and if there are problems how they can be resolved. If there are roadblocks we will have to ascertain how to proceed as it is rolled out. We may come to a point where we will say there is possibly another solution but we are not there now.