Mr. Paul Reid:

The funding for the national service plan provides a budget for up to 10,000 staff. In the discussions with the Department, as we were formulating the plan and knowing what is happening in the competitive national and international market, we put in place a number of strategies to forecast what level we see ourselves getting to. Our view is that it was best to state what the market was telling us at the start of the year. The market was telling us that all the disciplines would probably require about 5,500. We are still striving to achieve more than that. Thankfully, as of the end of March and April, we were above the 5,500 mark, recruiting just over 600 per month. We would like to reach 10,000 but we are reflecting on what is happening in the market.