Ms Cynthia Deane:

There was a process of redeployment of existing VEC chief executives. It was managed by the Department of Education and Skills. At the time, there were 20 serving full-time chief executives and 16 posts to be filled. Each of the serving chief executives could opt for a first choice location. There was a system that was almost like the CAO process of allocating people to their choices. Some 16 people were allocated by that process and I was lucky enough to be one.