Does the Minister agree that the system in employment exchanges when cases are under appeal is further complicated because it involves the community welfare officers during the period when the cases are under appeal? Would it not be more logical to have the two services provided under the same roof rather than having people running from the employment exchanges in one part of the town chasing around after community welfare officers who are now grossly over-worked in most cases?

I agree there is a need to integrate the community welfare officers and the manpower service in the employment exchanges, but the money I have spent in the past 12 months has been protecting the exchanges from the Provisional IRA and the INLA from robbing the exchanges. We have spent thousands of pounds keeping guard on the taxpayers' money which could have gone into integrating the offices. That is the sad state we are in. Those people have run out of banks and post offices and they are now trying to rob the employment exchanges.