Mr. Robert Watt:

The main specific saving in education is on substitution and supervision, which is a significant saving, as well as the reduction in overall pay. In the third-level sector there are people who earn more than €65,000, so savings would arise there. There is an increase in substitution and supervision hours and there is an increase in hours for the institutes of technology and universities, so there is an increase in productivity which should increase the overall output. The impact on health is different from education and other sectors. That has made this the most complex collective agreement we have ever entered into because we did it across all the sectors with central measures which applied broadly to everybody with some differences and nuances depending on the sector, and a variety of sector-specific measures. The key challenge in sectors such as health, the Garda and local authorities is for managers and those responsible for running the system to drive the change and benefit from the agreement negotiated. It is an enormous management and leadership challenge in a number of sectors to ensure we get the savings we have set out.