Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

As I said earlier, the Government has very publicly stated that it wants to put in place the housing assistance payment to take over all of the longer-term rent supplement and to return rent supplement to its original intention. That inevitably will have to make changes to the rent supplement scheme. Some of the issues we have become alive to over the past number of years will have to feature in any consideration of that.

To correct the record, when the Deputy asked me earlier how many assistant secretaries there were in the Department, I could not remember, which is appalling. There are 13 members of the management board, which includes ten assistant secretaries.