Mr. Declan Naughton:

There are two aspects to this matter. There is a considerable backlog, as we have already said. We need to bring that back down to ten weeks and at that point it will be stabilised. There is a secondary exercise that we in the RSA have to do at that point. We must consider what do we need to do to maintain it at ten weeks or less. The people we are taking on now are on temporary contracts. When we bring back our waiting times to ten weeks and stabilise, because that will take a considerable number of driver testers to do that, at that point we will do an estimation of how many driver testers do we need to maintain a continuous ten-week waiting time, and we will then make that submission to the Department in terms of permanency. So how many of the driver testers we have at that point do we need to be permanent to maintain or even reduce the ten-week waiting time.