Mr. Niamh O'Donoghue:

I do not know. There is much ongoing work and my Department is heavily involved in trying to assist the framing of the issue because of our experience of the rent supplement scheme and creating the kind of structures that might make the housing assistance payment a viable solution for local authorities. The Deputy will see developments sooner rather than later, with the expectation that some of the process will be piloted in early 2014.