Mr. Michael Horgan:

It is fair to say that we have reduced our presence at many EU conferences and safety meetings because of the level of staffing we have. We have concentrated more on internal issues relating to Ireland and have done so with the level of staffing we have. We are no different to any other public body in that we are challenged with the reduced level of funding available to us. At all times, we have endeavoured to meet that challenge and come up with solutions by either moving staff or reducing things we would consider less important than the critical issues we must address. That is what we have been doing up to now. I am not sure that our annual report for 2013 will state anything that differs greatly than what is in the 2012 report.

If I may, I will skip the item on the report on construction. Bullying is part of an issue within employment and should be part of employers' risk assessment and policy documents on health and safety in the workplace. It is something that comes up fairly regularly and is usually dealt with at a local level. The part that will become of greater interest will be stress in the workplace, which is linked to bullying. How we deal with stress in the workplace as part of health and safety is the part that will be a challenge in the future because sometimes it is not considered to be part of general health and safety issues. Mr. O'Halloran can add to that if he wishes when he is dealing with the first question.

The board of the authority discussed the issue of corporate manslaughter at about the middle of this year. As members know, the offence of corporate manslaughter has been introduced in the UK and there have been two cases in Northern Ireland since its introduction. We discussed it to form a view in case it came back to us. I could not say there was a general consensus within the authority in terms of recommending the introduction of such a charge. My guess is that it would be something the authority would support. We did not and were not asked to reach a decision. It was discussed as a concept but my view would be that-----