Mr. P. J. Fitzpatrick:

Not necessarily. It is not our job to micro-manage. We certainly expressed a view in the report, which was strongly in line with the official view, that the rehiring of staff who had retired should be the exception rather than the norm. With teachers, that was very understandable. Where teachers were teaching classes that were doing examinations, of course, there could not have been disruption. The fact that announcement was made very quickly and very early, way back when talk about the February departures began, did a lot to allay parents' fears that students might be left high and dry and killed off a lot of fear and worry on the part of parents of children doing examinations. That was perfectly understandable. Other than that, our view is that it should be very exceptional rather than the norm for the very reasons Deputy Connaughton stated, that is, the numbers who are unemployed.