Mr. Michael Donnellan:

As can be seen on the screen, there were four bands. There was band 0, then 112 hours, 240 hours and 360 hours. At the time, there was a requirement for as many people to work as many hours as possible and about 85% of people worked 360 hours, the top band. However, following the Haddington Road agreement, there was a requirement for us to address cost control issues and cost reduction issues. We were required to meet a level of 70% of staff on 360 hours, 10% on 112, 10% on 240 and 10% on 0. We are nearly at those. That has provided a saving to our pay bill of about €3.5 million. That was a further refinement through a whole range of agreements that were made. For instance, the Croke Park agreement required further staff savings and there was a headcount reduction of about 230 staff. Since then there have been reductions and savings on our prison Vote.