Mr. Pat Healy:

I take the point and that is something we have to look at. Where we sit at the moment is that we have been in process. The trade unions, as they should, are going back to consult their members. What we will have to do, and we are committed to doing so as I said in my opening statement, is use the industrial relations machinery to come back and see how we find a solution to that.

What I am also saying is that after two years of significant work and collaboration by all sides, we came with a set of proposals out of the WRC that both sides agreed to. The only thing that went to the Labour Court was the phasing. The unions wanted it backdated and the State wanted a phasing forward. The Labour Court came down on paying it from 1 August this year.

The point I was trying to make is that we will of course engage on this but we went through a very comprehensive process and came out with what was regarded as the best set of proposals to meet the totality of needs of the teams. Of course, there are people who are disappointed. Some are receiving increases of 14% and some 3% so there is obviously a variation there. We will continue to work, as we do, through the industrial relations machinery to see how we can bring that to a resolution.