Ms Mo Flynn:

I think we can confirm clearly that all of us received individual letters from every HSE office in the country, which specified and quite clearly categorised the requirement with the imposition of the cuts in terms of public sector workers and our requirement to carry out the same with regard to our employees.

It is interesting that in the 2000s, when we were going through the benchmarking experience, all our organisations were equally engaged in benchmarking and were considered to be in the same line as public servants without being public servants and went through that process and the verification process.