Mr. Eamonn Donnelly:

One has to seek sanction from the Departments. It is not just a matter of identifying a gap somewhere and advertising. It does not work like that. One must seek sanction. Then a Department will have to go to another Department to seek sanction and by the time that comes back the vacancy landscape has already changed. Sometimes one advertises. One creates a panel and one thinks it is fit for purpose but by the time people are called from that panel one has put one bubble out in the wallpaper and another one jumps up. There has to be a systematic look at recruitment to do it in a different way. Perhaps we might need some outside expertise on that. I do not know.