Mr. Pat Burke:

That is a different contract altogether. The State Examinations Commission is under the aegis of the Department of Education and Skills. However the Department formally ran the examinations directly. There is a process of advertising and inviting application. People are selected. There are more applicants than places for supervision, which is more attractive. Marking examinations is less attractive. I am working from recollection but typically one would end up with €2,000 for marking examination papers. It is based on a fixed sum per script and the amount varies depending on whether it is an English script and so on.