Ms Anne Marie McMahon:

The recruitment campaign has not started yet. It will be launched on 10 February. There is an extensive outreach plan in place and that will include going into the schools, using ads as Gaeilge and doing information sessions as Gaeilge in addition to other avenues in the general sense of the competition. This is the most extensive outreach programme we have ever embarked on in a recruitment campaign. We will be promoting the fact that we have an Irish language stream and we will be using every opportunity to promote that once the campaign is launched. It will be a six-week campaign so we have quite a bit of time but we have been planning that since before Christmas.

I refer to the question on not being notified. I have already alluded to the fact that this was an omission on our part. In terms of the promotion regulations it was not something that was to the fore in our minds when we were last here. The decision on the recruitment campaign was not made at all at that point. The proximity of our visit to the committee to the change in the promotion regulations is quite short. I accept that we should have brought that up on that occasion.