Ms Joan Curry:

I am not aware of the circumstances around the redundancies and I do not think it is appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances. They are between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, HR, the two individuals and the unions involved. It just so happened that they were part of a group of staff who transitioned to our payroll shared service, and in the implementation of that transition there were obviously some arrangements going on in the background that we may or may not have been aware of. From an administrative point of view, and because it was transcending year end, the redundancy payment was processed through our payroll, with a subsequent request to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for the recoupment.