Ms Margaret McCabe:

This was because of the issues we were having. We might think we had 400 applications from people who were interested in working through Irish but actually when we went back out to them, asked them what their level was, even just very simple stuff, we discovered we might be lucky if we had 20. Therefore, we separated them out so at least now people understand they are applying for a job for which they need a level of Irish to work through and that is the reason why.