Ms Teresa Leonard:

I would like to make a point in respect of the €350 rate and the actual income it amounts to. The €350 is net income, so the annual gross figure would be equivalent to approximately €20,000. I will return to the issue of the genuinely seeking work rule because I did not do a great job of answering the question the first time. I was going to go back and clarify the matter for the Deputy. Although the environment and the times we are in mean that we are perhaps not applying the genuinely seeking work rule as religiously as we normally would, it is there and it is a rule that is applicable to the PUP scheme. I should say that activation supports are available to people if they want to interact with them directly. In the new year it is likely that we will do something on activation in respect of PUP recipients.