Mr. John Tierney:

To give the Deputy one statistic, as for the posts for which we already have advertised and held competitions, we must deal with somewhere between 17,000 and 18,000 applications. This is not a normal situation and this is a start-up. If, for example, one takes the timescale, we were endeavouring to bring in more than 300 staff members in the space of six months, which is an enormous undertaking. It would not be available to an organisation the size of Bord Gáis or any similarly-sized organisation to do that out of the norm. One had to bring in additional resourcing to do this. I will get the exact brand figure for the Deputy and although I do not have to hand that level of detail in respect of the breakdown of some of these, I am happy to provide that.