Ms Brenda Feeney:

There were a number of professionals on panels who were already in posts but were hoping to use that opportunity to move from their current post to another post, while newly qualified graduates sometimes were not even making panels. There was a backlog then where the panels were there, but the people on them did not necessarily want the jobs that became available because they might already be in that department or service. There were a number of times when we had to recruit from agencies such as TTM or CPL, and the people we brought in told us that they did not make the national panels because they were so competitive and there were a lot more experienced practitioners coming high up on those panels. We felt at that point that if we had been able to run a local campaign for recruitment, we would have been able to recruit far more quickly.