Ms Isolde Goggin:

We have just over 100 people currently and recruitment is under way, which we expect will bring us up to approximately 120 people. The number is always contingent on what is going on at the time. What is going on for us now is the same as what is going on for everyone else in the country, namely, Brexit. We managed to reach this point without mentioning it, which was good. Brexit will have a large impact on our work. It has an impact on consumer rights when buying online, for example, and we will be doing a great deal of work to try to inform consumers about that. If they buy stuff from a UK website, they will not necessarily have the same rights that they would have had previously. We have a consumer product safety remit, which involves ensuring that products entering the country destined for general consumer use are fit and proper and meet the relevant standards. If everything coming in from the UK becomes a third country import overnight, our product safety remit will ramp up significantly. We have been given additional resources by the Department to do that.

There is always more that one can do, but the resources that we have are contingent on the jobs we are given to do. If we are given more to do, we will need more resources to do it.