Mr. John McKeon:

The background to that discussion was the point I just made, which was about the payment to people in serviced accommodation and respecting the value of that. The payment rate is set by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. It is not set by our Department. We administer the payment. The policy decision about the appropriate level was made by a different Department. That Department decided to align it with the payment for people in international protection and that is the payment they get for living in similar accommodation. That was the policy rationale.

Regarding whether it has any impact in future on inflows, inflows have reduced over the past year or two, which you would expect. At one point, we were getting 500 per day. It is now down to about 60 per day. Who knows whether it will reduce that further?