Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

—with regard to the targeting of those resources. The change proposed here does not merit the amount of opposition it has received, bearing in mind that if one does not secure employment during the summer one can revert to all the other social welfare supports and benefits available to that category. The issue of equity must be looked at. If the scheme were to be continued for the summer the resources deployed in that area would have to be taken from other areas. In that context I am not sure the arguments made are as strong as the emotional sense behind them appears.