Ms Shirley Comerford:

I understand what the Chairman is saying about the evidence because, again, this is something we are just trying. We will be running an Irish language-only executive officer, EO, competition, which will be advertised this week, and we will be running an Irish language-only higher executive officer, HEO, competition. We will be able to look at that in 2020 after we have run that competition to see if that has made an impact. That is one of the things we are doing differently to see if we can widen that candidate pool, as well as all the other things we are doing around reaching out to the second and third level institutions, partnering with the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on its roadshows, looking for ways where we can engage and work with Departments that have specific requirements. Those are things we are doing. I would like to think that at this time next year we will have some data so we can look at the correlations and see if it has made an impact and if it is any different.