Ms Isolde Goggin:

We did foresee a need for an increase in funding, particularly in staffing. Last year, we engaged with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the formulation of our budget ask for this year. I am very happy to say that we were given a substantial increase in our pay budget for this year. We are still working out, based on the detail of what is in the Bill, what sort of people we need and who goes where. We certainly need economists and lawyers. We will probably need people in the IT space as well. That is really one of the areas where we are looking at the prospects of attracting and retaining people because it is very specialised and there is a lot of demand for it. We have a little bit of concern about how to do it but we are still working through that. We are happy that we have built up the unit we currently have and that we are building up specialist expertise within each of the divisions as well, including competition enforcement, consumer protection, product safety, criminal investigation and so on. We cannot complain at the moment.