I certainly accept that the staffs are suffering because their number has not been increased in proportion to the increase in the unemployment figures. Does the Minister consider that the time has come to have a new look at the whole method of signing on, particularly in the case of young people? Is it appropriate to have numbers of young people attending exchanges to sign on and have them waiting for perhaps three or four months to have their claims processed? Is this desirable socially? I should like the Minister to make a statement on any plan the Department have for changing the system.

I would hope that this would be one of the areas at which the Commission on Social Welfare would be looking.

The question is really a statistical one.

I take the Deputy's point. The area in question is one that must be looked at. Something that has been the practice for a long time is not necessarily what is needed today, so I accept that the position should be looked at on an on-going basis.