Mr. Hubert Loftus:

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform reformed the travel and subsistence arrangements centrally and we have updated the travel and subsistence arrangements for the ETB sector to reflect those reforms. They were issued by a circular from the Department and all ETBs were requested to implement them. In terms of leave arrangements, they are dealt with. There are standard terms and conditions on those and they operate centrally. As part of the changeover and amalgamation of VECs and bringing in training centres, there might have been some legacy issues that had to be managed and there is an IR form for operating within the sector to work through those issues.