Mr. P. J. Fitzpatrick:

First, as I stated earlier, the appendices to the agreement contained lists of things to be done for each sector. Obviously, we have been tracking progress against those lists and in most sectors, virtually all of those are done. The other big one on which we were able to track progress is the reduction in numbers and in reducing the pay bill. When the agreement was drawn up, that was the big issue. At that point, the target was a reduction of 25,000 by 2014 under the then Government's four-year recovery plan. It subsequently became a reduction of 37,000 by 2015 under the new programme for Government. Consequently, we track the numbers on a quarterly basis. On the other reforms, such as shared services or the more organisational reforms, we track the action plans. Before carrying out our review, we must get progress reports from all the sectors on what progress they are making against the action plans. At the same time, we seek new action plans for the following year.