Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

A good deal of what I want to address relates to the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Some of these changes will require legislative change. For example, the change to pay a landlord directly if that is the tenant's choice was made by writing an instruction to that effect to the community welfare officer. That option depends on each individual's circumstances. What I intend to do, as I am doing in the case of the mortgage interest supplement, is to make a list of all the changes proposed and to decide those that can be made by the issuing of a circular, those that can be made by way of a statutory instrument and those that will require legislation. I hope that when Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, and I are ready with our work in January we can put forward a headline list of things to do and specify what is required in respect of each matter. If such a change requires legislation, we should not make a big issue, as many people do, of introducing necessary legislation.