Mr. Joe Hamill:

It presents challenges. From various perspectives, part of the problem when we are scattered in different places is that most of the finance function is in Killarney. It raises some issues.

We have all our Irish language and Gaeltacht people in Galway, which works quite well because they are in the Gaeltacht and close to Údarás na Gaeltachta. Our people in Wexford are slightly isolated perhaps in that they were to be there as part of the then environment Department and rather than being part of a very large Department there is a group of approximately 40 people. Issues arise in that regard, and also in terms of bringing people to Dublin for business and other such issues. We try to use video conferencing as best we can but there are costs and difficulties.