Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Yes. The challenge I have given the human resources department is that, as we go through the agency conversion, if the placing of any of the agency staff on a permanent panel is such that they are near to being offered a position, they can move to permanent employment. They would be taken on in any event even if they were not with the agency. However, the difficulty and what we must be careful of is that if an agency worker was working in Tusla and was placed tenth on the permanent panel, we could not convert that worker to the disadvantage of people placed one to nine on the panel because under the recruitment licence those people have been ranked on the panel higher than the agency worker. Furthermore, those people may be living abroad and thinking of taking up an offer of employment. The intention is to offer a conversion to approximately two thirds of the 677.