Ms Margaret Attridge:

We will engage with them, see if we have a position and if they can come over to us through recruitment, but they have made the decision to go back. Working in water services is a career and people live and work in their communities. For some people, when they move into other sections of the local authority, they lose part of the community involvement they have had. Many local authority people fear they will be relocated to some other area of their county. What is emerging is they are not. We have many operational centres across the country that facilitate people staying and living locally. We want people staying and working in their communities. As people see that, it gives them more confidence to come over to us.