Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That comes from me on behalf of the committee as well, and on my own behalf. Mr. Creaney raised this issue clearly. Due to timing, the RSA appeared before Mr. Creaney, but I had read his opening statement. I put a few questions to it. Mr. Creaney is free to look back at what was said. It is up to him. However, I got the impression that the RSA is looking to increase the base and have more permanent testers. Perhaps when it reaches 165 or 170 testers, occasional temporary testers will still be needed on top of that, but that was not the impression I got. The impression is that the RSA is looking to increase its permanent tester base to a larger number, but needs departmental sanction which it will look for. The RSA did not give an absolute timeline but that is where it is looking to go because it wants to get the lists down. It has an SLA and commitments to keep to, with respect to the ten weeks, which, as was said, should be the maximum rather than the target.