Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There are. The Deputy is correct to raise it. I am very keen on ensuring it happens, and we have clearance to do it. For example, there is a need for petroleum exploration specialists and for senior telecommunications analysts and engineers in respect of the broadband roll-out we discussed. We need a head of cyber security to lead in the protection of critical national infrastructure, and energy market analysts, a subject we also discussed earlier, to focus on both market and technology developments nationally and internationally. To answer the Deputy's question, the first element relates to the recruitment of specialist staff. The second element is that the increased allocation also includes moneys that must be made available owing to the fact that there are 27 fortnightly pay days in 2015, as opposed to the usual 26. It is a quirk of the Roman calendar that we have 27 pay days in 2015. Nobody gets any extra pay, unfortunately, but they get paid on an extra occasion this year.