Mr. Jim Breslin:

We have met with IMO officials and they have gone away to talk to its GP committee and to report on that. There is no timeline being placed on the Government negotiators. If negotiations are to be done by a particular date that weakens the hand of the management negotiators, as I have seen previously. The Ministers and I have told the leads on our side and in the HSE we would like them to do this as quickly as possible, to get the type of priorities we have identified for these negotiations but we are not putting them on the clock.