Mr. Paul Mulvaney:

I might speak to the safety culture. We have a lot of safety structures in place in the ESB. We have local safety committees all around the country which can report up through a national safety committee. Staff members around the country have the opportunity to bring any areas of concern to the committee through their local safety representatives. Concerns then go to the national safety committee where the issues can be addressed. That is one way it may be done.

We have a computer system called Shield and anybody can raise any issue on the system. The issue will be tracked and actioned. That is another way of doing it. In the past year, we started a transformational behavioural safety programme using consultants that we brought over from the UK. It deals with people's relationship with safety. As part of that, we have set up 30 local leadership teams. We also have a business unit leadership team. The programme addresses people's relationship with safety and the psychological side of safety. Local safety committees tend to deal with the processes, procedures, rules and regulations, equipment and the physical things and the behavioural and relationship side is dealt with through the safe and sound programme. We are anxious to engage with the organisation on safety and we do so actively.