Ms Hilary Murphy-Fagan:

All the public service bodies that receive HR services from us pay a fee per capita, that is, per unit cost. It is calculated on the basis of the total cost of the HR shared services centre. We pay a percentage - in fact, the majority percentage is paid by the National Shared Services Office, NSSO, Vote, and a proportion of the cost of the pay bill and a proportion of the operational expenses are paid by the participating bodies on a fee basis. We notify each Government Department or public service body when they are carrying out their budgeting process each year to let them know what the fee will be. It amounted to 25% recovery of the costs, but this has increased to 35% recovery.