Ms Angela Fitzgerald:

Every body, public sector and private, will have short-term absences for parental leave, unpaid leave or maternity leave.

I have given one example recently. We provide for that but we seek to keep it to a minimum. Our desire is to maintain expertise and maintain continuity. For example, if we are in the middle of a project where continuity is essential, it may be that we would support that project. In the CHI review where we used our own staff, there would have been an administrative piece that may have been additional, and rather than displacing someone, we would have used agency staff for a period. They are very much short term, but one would have that every year. On a base of 4,509 staff, it is somewhere between 3% and 4%.