Ms Caroline Timmons:

Okay, no problem at all.

The Deputy's second question was what will happen to people who may not have fulfilled habitual residence requirements when we are coming out of the cold weather. As a priority for our Department, everybody must have a humanitarian attitude to people who need accommodation. It is imperative that someone who requires shelter and needs a roof over their head is dealt with as a person first, rather than looking at the particular situation. If the person does not fulfil the requirements we have in relation to social housing eligibility, the question is what happens to them then. We are talking to Department of Justice about this. We do need to figure this out and I do not believe that we have settled on quite exactly how that policy should be dealt with. We would like to bring some clarity into that area in the near future. It could help everybody to understand what way we are going to deal with that going forward.