Ms Colette Drinan:

For the financial audit programme we have two other resourcing strands - I will put it like that - in addition to the permanent staff. One relates to where short-term vacancies arise because of departures. We would look to get contractors in on short-term contracts while we are looking to fill the posts permanently. Committee members will see from the information I sent that the number of contractors and the amount we have spent on contractors has reduced significantly. The number was the equivalent nine full-time equivalent staff in 2017 but it reduced to one in 2018.