Mr. David Sheahan:

It will not quite go to 830 before the end of the year. What is happening at the moment is that there are other competitions in the Garda Síochána regarding promotions from garda sergeant and we are likely to lose a number of personnel due to that. In addition, there are people who are at retirement age and may retire between now and then. There will be a natural attrition in numbers in the next couple of months. What I am trying to do between now and the end of the year is to determine what that attrition rate is going to be and I will build that into the figures for 2019. Whatever I lose this year, I will put extra in from the competition for 2019.