Mr. John Twomey:

There is no evidence that anybody has lost their job. What we have found is that, in many cases where we have written to people, we have got no response. We then have to go to the next step, which is a personal call to these people. Where others come back unserved, we have another process. It is quite time-consuming. We are talking about large numbers. I mentioned that 4,843 letters were returned by An Post as unserved. They were all then sent out to local district officers to begin that individual process. In other cases, there was a considerable number of people who did not respond at all to the letter they got as to whether they wanted to appeal or not. Separate to that again, we have brought the 2,200 through the courts and we have another 2,000 scheduled to go through the courts.