Ms Marie-Claire Maney:

It is not a huge amount. That is probably the one piece of paper I did not bring with me to the meeting. As we are going to change the grading, we believe the replacement of the commissioners at the grading we have with an extra four would be cost-neutral. To recruit an extra two commissioners at the lower end of the salary scale would cost around €160,000. All in, I believe the extra costing was estimated to be €500,000, or something of that magnitude. When we have €4.2 billion worth of cases under appeal, the proposal seemed quite cost-effective in terms of restructuring and reducing the salary grades.