Mr. Conor King:

I will comment on that. I might then pass over to Commandant Ryan and Captain Bray in turn. Regarding the private sector and the public sector, I quoted Richard Branson earlier about training people so that they can leave but treating them so that they do not want to. We train people extremely well. As they are very highly trained, highly educated, well-disciplined, generally upstanding citizens, they are attractive. However, we cannot just say that full employment is the reason we are not retaining people, given that we have not put the hygiene factors in place that are actually stimulating retention. The incentivised long service arrangements that disappeared, the long service increments that were talked about in the commission, the working time directive and the post-2013 pension are examples of factors contributing to the retention issue. We always heard about the Defence Forces and the rest of the public sector, particularly with regard to the uniform fast accrual, that they had a great pension and good job security. When those things are removed and other things are not changed, there is a problem. Will Commandant Ryan comment?