Mr. John McKeon:

It is integrated. If I may finish on this. One of the big issues that came out in the consultancy was that the customer journey between the LES, the job clubs, Intreo and ourselves was not very well integrated. One then has to have a look at how one allocates.

The other point I made to some of the Deputy’s colleagues earlier is that we have not finalised the lot sizes. The consultants either recommended 15 or 17. It will be more than that but equally, and as a Border Deputy he will be familiar with this, it does not mean that the existing service providers have to change their own geographic focus. What has happened, for example, in Donegal and in Sligo-Leitrim is that the various job clubs providers in those areas got together and put in a collaborative bid and I hope that other providers would do the same as well.