Mr. Paul Reid:

A number of members raised that issue in their contributions. Obviously, we want to reduce our spend on agency staff. The total spend is just around €400 million, and I will be happy to share the breakdown of the expenditure. We spend about 32% on support staff, which is mainly health care assistants, and 64% on medical and nursing staff, which is broken down between community and acute services. Our agency spend is just over 5% of our total spend in terms of payroll. It is something we wish to reduce. In terms of equivalence, it is about 5,500 head count. It is a marginal element of our overall spend that we want to reduce. It is a flexible resource that we need to utilise, where we have to utilise it.