Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

The graduates are there but, unfortunately, we are competing with the private sector. There is a significant number of organisations in Ireland that are recruiting graduates on the data analytics front. Statisticians are essentially data analysts. There are also growing demands for data analysts across the public service so it is a far more crowded labour market than was the case previously. We are doing our best. A competition is under way with over 200 applicants. We will be running interviews in the next period of time. We will put a panel in place and try to bring in as many of those statisticians and data analysts as we can.