Ms Breda Gibson:

Their priorities are different. What we need is for the two of them to talk. If businesses close down, we are looking at the loss of jobs. While we might have gained money somewhere, jobs will have been lost. We have to balance the books. If jobs are going, we have to acknowledge that the social bill is higher. That is what we have to look at. If the Departments spoke to each other, we might get somewhere. We have to balance both sides of the equation.