Mr. Ted Owens:

As I stated, the former chief executive officers were faced with some difficult cases and dealt with those cases as they saw fit. I may have brought a fresh perspective to these particular instances. To ensure that legal costs did not continue to rise, I sought to bring about a resolution of these cases. I do not believe there are any major outstanding cases of staff dissatisfaction, cases for retrospective payments or human resources issues. While there will always be human resource issues in an organisation which has 3,800 employees, I believe, to use the words of the Deputy, we have a happy camp in Cork Education and Training Board.