Mr. Paul Reid:

Trade unions will be key stakeholders in this process and we have been engaging with the staff individually and through their trade union representatives. At this stage we have just worked through some of the hospital group teams, the CHO teams and some of the clinical specialists. Trade unions will be a key part of the engagement both through their input into the design as well as the negotiations on the detailed structures that need to be put in place. As I said earlier, some of them are already in place and have been the subject of negotiations, like the network managers and the community health network teams that are in place throughout the country. There would have been very detailed discussions and dialogue with all the trade unions. They are core stakeholders and we value their input.