Mr. Brian Murphy:

I will draw a pen picture of the type of person we employ. We have a staff of 44, approximately one third of whom are on the financial advisory side. The majority working in this area are chartered accountants and experienced former bankers, corporate and project financiers. All of them are professionally qualified and have several years of experience.

On the project management and procurement side - Mr. Burgess's area - we employ 27, up from 23 because we recruited recently in response to the stimulus package. Most of these individuals are professionally qualified in a construction or procurement related discipline. They include engineers, architects, quantity surveyors and people with extensive procurement expertise in the private sector.