Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

As I said earlier, those individuals do not report to me. They report to people who work for the HSE overall. The organisation, across all its divisions, has a capacity and process to work out each year what resources are required for the following year and for longer periods. The process is hampered by the systems we have, but we have to get on with the reality of it. Each of the divisions will engage with each of those nine community health care organisations to figure out what they require to run the service as it exists today as well as the development funding they will seek for new services or the expansion of existing services. The process runs every year and, within its limitations, it is reasonable process. That is how it happens. The fact that the financial officer does not report to me directly does not interfere in the process in any way, good, bad or indifferent.

I was asked about recruitment and another question. I will ask my colleague to answer those questions.