Ms Anne Marie Hoey:

-----but once the decision was advised to the HSE, we put in place arrangements based on the criteria agreed with the Department on the basis of the Government decision. Arrangements were put in place to expedite the payments to all of our staff. They started early and we reached 126,000 a couple of months ago. We did expedite that. Regarding non-statutory, non-section 38 agencies, they are not our staff so we do not have full visibility of who they are. We have, however, put in place a mechanism for payments to be made to those people in the past couple months. That was initiated in October, with payment starting in November. There has been significant engagement with that process. Those payments will be expedited over the coming weeks.