Mr. Ger Deering:

Yes, but interestingly he or she will not be a part of the Civil Service. For example, when the organisation was set up on 1 January 2018, we had people who were civil servants at the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The legislation provided that they had two years either to become public servants or to return to the Department, which most of them did. If one is part of a Department of 3,000 people, one's opportunity for promotion is much better because there are internal competitions in those Departments, as opposed to an organisation the size of ours, where it can take longer for opportunities to arise at senior level.