Mr. Damien McCallion:

At the policy level around education, that is something the Department typically leads on and we would feed into that in terms of what our needs are across all of our services. We have a resourcing plan around that in terms of trying to best predict what we think we are going to need.

To illustrate the point, in previous years, we would normally have turnover in the health system of around 9,000 but, last year, that jumped to nearly 13,000, so just to stand still we had to recruit an extra 3,000 to 4,000, and we still recruited just under 6,000 – or perhaps 5,500 - in total numbers. At that level, there is work with the Department. We have our own resourcing plan and it is working very closely with us around those particularly difficult grades to fill.