Mr. Brian Purcell:

The flexibility is in the arrangement, as I outlined, whereby officers and other ranks can choose one of four bands, each with an allocated additional hours limit. For example, staff who do not wish to work any additional hours can opt into the band which permits zero additional hours, and so on through a range up to the maximum permitted number of additional hours. That system provides the flexibility that is required. An allocation of €33 million is available to cover the additional hours necessary to deploy staff to meet service demands.