Ms Joan Curry:

I do not want to comment on the case, but the two individuals were part of a group of people who were transitioning from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine into the payroll shared service. In the course of that transition there was an arrangement made between their union and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that they would be available to take the voluntary redundancy. They had transitioned to the NSSO and were now on our payroll so it was agreed that we would process the administrative arrangements around that redundancy and then make a recoupment request to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. That happened after year-end, so the cost is represented in our 2016 account, with the subsequent recoupment to appear in later accounts.