Mr. Pat Smyth:

It is important to note that the full cost is €30 million and the additional cost is approximately 25% extra over what those employees would cost if they were full-time workers. That is a cost we need to eliminate from the system. The reason we need it in the first place, on the social care side and certainly on the residential side, is that we have quite a high level of absence due to sickness because of the nature of the residential services. People are out regularly, so in order to fill the work schedules required we must have a number of people who are available all the time to come in. We have directly targeted all those social workers who are on the agency list to ensure they are aware of our competitions and we encourage them to apply.