Ms Eimear Cusack:

People were released as part of the VEP on the basis that their roles would be suppressed but within a short space of time, it was realised that because of the restructuring that was taking place, those roles would be needed and those staff members had to be replaced. There may, therefore, be a statutory liability under the Redundancy Payments Act. A small number of others were affected because as part of the programme in 2017, there was the possibility to create indirect cost savings. Somebody may have been released and the cost savings achieved elsewhere. There may be a liability in that regard.