Mr. Liam Kidd:

I think I should. In terms of the overall staffing needs for ICT, we completed a comprehensive review of our staffing needs that was published just over two years ago. That went into the process of getting approvals for staff and we did get approval for recruiting four additional staff at principal officer level and nine additional staff at assistant principal officer level or Garda equivalent. The Policing Authority has taken the decision that those posts should now be filled by Garda staff as opposed to Garda members so they will be principal officer or assistant principal officer posts. The comprehensive review set new structures and the exact numbers we would need. Reconfiguring our organisation into those new structures is what we have been in discussion with the Garda associations and unions. I believe all of those have been agreed so it is now up to us. This is what I am meeting Mr. Nugent about this afternoon. It concerns how we commence the recruitment process for those senior leaders and start restructuring by branch into those new functions and structures.