Ms Anne Marie Hoey:

On recruitment, we have deployed a number of strategies over the past number of years to improve our recruitment both domestically and internationally. We have also increased capacity to enable us to recruit. In the current year, our recruitment efforts accelerated. We recruited earlier than we projected our target for the end of the year. In the context of having achieved the level of recruitment and the level of affordable post in 2023, the recruitment freeze was implemented a number of weeks ago. On the plus side, we have the benefit as we go forward of all the recruitment we achieved earlier than expected. We are currently in the process of drawing up the service plan for 2024, which will determine the complement of whole-time equivalent staff for next year. Within that complement, the plan is that we will be able to continue to recruit next year and to replace post within the complement. There is also provision for new development post in 2024. The service planning process for next year is ongoing.