Ms Laverne McGuinness:

There is 143 all together. I will give the Deputy each of the individual ones. Forty-three have ceased in full.

Three are in a category relating to what the HSE knows as the "one person one salary" principle. An example would be when there is an outside arrangement, perhaps for lecturing, under a different contract and three of them are in a particular piece there. As I stated, 60 are those for which there are contractual obligations, red circling is being sought and the documentation has been submitted. Obviously, were this to proceed, it would be personal to the post holder and would change in the case of anybody new. Eighteen have indicated contractual entitlements but the HSE is awaiting the documentation to be submitted in those cases. They currently have not fulfilled and submitted the legal contracts in this regard. Seven were working with agencies to achieve compliance, and as some were in partial compliance, we are working with them to see if we can get full compliance on that. We are awaiting responses from four agencies on their actions to reach compliance and are stating this also is part of the compliance policy and statement. We have eight in a separate process, one of which is the Central Remedial Clinic, CRC - this not to single out the CRC, as it has legitimate reasons in this respect - and that brings us up to 143 cases.