Ms Laura Brien:

Given where we are today, we need to ramp up our activities across a range of different functions that we will carry out. The plan or the budget that we put together was based on an assumption that it takes time to recruit. We are out there and we are actively recruiting. We will build up staff over time. We need to be fussy about the people we recruit. We need to make sure that we are getting the right people with the right skills in the door. That is not going to happen overnight. We will be building up our activities. We are in the process of doing a more detailed budget exercise now internally. If the answer to that comes out to be different, we will be back into the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to say that we need more money. We will not be shy about that. At this point in time, we must look at our planning based on our best estimates of what we will be doing and on which activities we have the capacity to absorb.