The cutback in rent allowance, for which one can only qualify after six months, has correctly attracted most attention. This means people who are forced to leave the family home because of family or marital breakdown, overcrowding or a crisis pregnancy are no longer entitled to rent allowance as of right. The Minister may say the Department is not a housing agency and that the total number of people claiming rent allowance at 59,000 is too high because it was never intended to be widely used. Perhaps the Department is not a housing agency but, as the Minister pointed out in her contribution, the allowance was introduced to assist people who did not have an alternative and who needed the supplement to remain in rented accommodation. The bottom line is there is no alternative for a significant number of people. Those people, who are being told by the Minister that she will no longer look after them, do not have an alternative. Some will become homeless but more will remain in accommodation which is wholly inappropriate and unsuitable. They will reside in overcrowded accommodation with their parents or they will end up trespassing on the goodwill of others.