Ms Kate Duggan:

It is important to say some of those agency costs relates to birth information and tracing. It was a short-term piece of work that just needs to be done relative to implementing the new legislation. It was in response to employing agency work to support us with Operation Shamrock, which was around the return of data linked to the HSE. We have very few front-line staff employed by agency where we have sought to convert them but they do not want to convert. We have a target this year of trying to convert 50 staff into mainstream work, but a number of the agency staff employed today are linked to a certain task, which we do not see needing to continue after next year.