Mr. Noel Dowling:

I will respond to Deputy Calleary and I will ask one of my colleagues, Mr. John Horan, to comment on the staffing.

I will deal with the lightening of the regulatory load and how it might impact on competition, jobs and so on. Nobody is opposed to examining options to improve the possibility of creating jobs and sustaining more jobs in the country. A previous Government felt the same way about deregulating the financial services and construction sectors. In both cases, we have suffered the consequences. The development at Priory Hall is a good example of deregulation, to make it easy to increase activity in the industry, which it did but some of the other consequences have not been great. There can be unforeseen consequences when the regulatory burden is eased. We need to be careful about making these changes.

I acknowledge that during Deputy Calleary's term of office, there was a report on the mechanism of the Employment Appeals Tribunal. I have never seen that report and I am not too sure anybody else has. If it is available I would be delighted to have a copy.