Mr. Don Culliton:

It is a tiny number. The Chairman was concerned that certain individual officers may find themselves in a no-pay situation. Because of the new sick leave arrangements implemented by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2014, nobody goes into a no-pay situation. At worst case, they go onto a regime called temporary rehabilitative remuneration. There are payments to such officers, albeit that the payments might be quite low. As I understand it, they do not fall below the threshold that is set by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the context of disability payments and so on.