Mr. Liam Woods:

The Deputy referred to an issue of counting of student nurses. The counting of staff in the HSE is a matter for human resources, HR. To explain what has happened with the counting of graduate nurses, and not divert from the Deputy's question, as she referred to, student nurses were counted as 0.5 and not one, up until the end of last year. In the whole-time equivalent reports from January, they are counted as one. They are not all in the acute environment but most are. There are approximately 870 whole-time equivalent reported students in the acute environment. Last year, at the same time, that was reported at 435. That is in our published whole-time equivalent data set. On the question of why that is, that was a change made within HR. In some senses, it is helpful for me because it levels out the headcount-----