Mr. Robert Watt:

We had an original assessment where we set out the staff setting. We will save about 250 staff, and the yearly cost saving is several million euro. I will come back to the Deputy on the numbers but it will be several million each year over the period. What we are now looking at, based on what has been happening in the past number of years, is reassessing what we call the business case to see where we are, and we can share that with the Deputy. There will be savings of €12.5 million and 149 staff, who previously would have been on transactional HR, are now involved in other functions. We are refreshing the numbers and we can come back to the Deputy with our assessment of that.

On the savings, there will be cost savings. There is always a danger that we will focus on what we can just measure. There are very significant benefits in the system from the new information we will get to enable HR managers understand what is going on, and then to drive change. We will set out some of those benefits as well. They could be of much more significance and strategic importance to the system over time than the actual cash savings from more efficient practices and better technology.