Ms Brenda McVeigh:

That brings us back to the problem that there are only one or two members of staff to do all of this work, namely, to run the office, to recruit and to deal with all the investigations and appeals.

The recruitment licence allows us to recruit if we have the money and the sanctions from the two Departments to go ahead and use it. We are out of sanctions at the moment. It will not matter if we get additional temporary commissioners because without the support team to support them, we will not be able to move forward because there is a significant processing job to be done on these appeals. It has to be addressed. It will not be addressed by a commissioner. That would be a complete loss of money. All of our Civil Service obligations have to be addressed. That needs something apart from a temporary commissioner. The only sanctions we have at the moment are for a temporary commissioner. We do not have sanctions for additional staff to run the office.