Dr. Don Thornhill:

This has been a useful experience for us. It has been useful to face the challenging questions coming from members of the committee. Implicit in the Vice Chairman's suggestion is the thought that developing experience through dealing with larger employments, first of all, seems to be a reasonable strategy. Many of the larger employments are of course public sector ones and, sadly, the rates of absenteeism in the public sector are about three times those in the private sector. There is potentially very productive territory for us to plough. Let us hope that when we are talking to the committee again we will have registered progress and will have more positive outcomes of the type that Dr. Ryan has just outlined concerning teachers.