Mr. Ian Tegerdine:

I will take the questions as they arose. The first one was on FEMPI. FEMPI introduced new public sector pay arrangements from a particular point. The question on FEMPI was, where arrangements were in place that were not compliant with FEMPI, whether we could recoup the payments that were made after FEMPI came into effect. Ms Oonagh Buckley is an officer from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and its view is that it was never the intention and it would not be possible to backdate the reclaiming of payments before FEMPI. That is the issue around FEMPI.

The non-compliance, as we have said, is the National Maternity Hospital. The level of co-operation-----