Pulling associations out of $this->hasMany possibly using set module

Two of my models manage option lists (i.e. the options that appear in
select lists, radio buttons, check boxes etc). Each option list can
be associated to one or more models most commonly in a hasMany or
HABTM relationship.

What I want to do is make sure that before an option list item is
deleted that the system makes sure it is not currently related to any
other model. I plan to do this in the beforeDelete function of the
OptionListItem model and would imagine it would be best to do it by
interrogating the hasMany and hasManyAndBelongsTo arrays to check for
any associated models then running count finds on those models
returning false if any records are found.

Is there an easy way for me to traverse the following array (possibly
set::combine or extract) and pull out only the associations where
condition array includes option_list_id = $n, or would I have to loop
through the array to achieve this?

var $hasMany = array(
'AgencyStatus' => array(
'className' => 'Agency',
'foreignKey' => 'status_id',
'conditions' => array('AgencyStatus.option_list_id'=>20)
),
'BednightNotUsedReason' => array(
'className' => 'Bednight',
'foreignKey' => 'not_used_reason_id',
'conditions' => array('BednightNotUsedReason.option_list_id'=>26)
),
'ClientLA' => array(
'className' => 'Client',
'foreignKey' => 'la_id',
'conditions' => array('ClientLA.option_list_id'=>32)
),
'HouseholdStatus' => array(
'className' => 'Household',
'foreignKey' => 'status_id',
'conditions' => array('HouseholdStatus.option_list_id'=>25)
),
'PersonEthnicity' => array(
'className' => 'Person',
'foreignKey' => 'ethnicity_id',
'conditions' => array('PersonEthnicity.option_list_id'=>13)
),
'PersonGender' => array(
'className' => 'Person',
'foreignKey' => 'gender_id',
'conditions' => array('PersonGender.option_list_id'=>12)
),
'PersonReligion' => array(
'className' => 'Person',
'foreignKey' => 'religion_id',
'conditions' => array('PersonReligion.option_list_id'=>30)
),
'PersonSexuality' => array(
'className' => 'Person',
'foreignKey' => 'sexuality_id',
'conditions' => array('PersonSexuality.option_list_id'=>18)
),
'ReferralReasonClientDeclined' => array(
'className' => 'Referral',
'foreignKey' => 'declined_reason_id',
'conditions' => array(
'ReferralReasonClientDeclined.offer_status'=>2,
'ReferralReasonClientDeclined.option_list_id'=>22
)
),
'ReferralReasonSchemeDeclined' => array(
'className' => 'Referral',
'foreignKey' => 'declined_reason_id',
'conditions' => array(
'ReferralReasonSchemeDeclined.offer_status'=>1,
'ReferralReasonSchemeDeclined.option_list_id'=>21
)
),
'SchemeRegion' => array(
'className' => 'Scheme',
'foreignKey' => 'region_id',
'conditions' => array('SchemeRegion.option_list_id'=>5)
),
'SchemeStatus' => array(
'className' => 'Scheme',
'foreignKey' => 'status_id',
'conditions' => array
('AgenSchemeStatusyStatus.option_list_id'=>10)
),
'StaffStatus' => array(
'className' => 'Staff',
'foreignKey' => 'status_id',
'conditions' => array('StaffStatus.option_list_id'=>15)
)
);
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