Mr. Anthony Owens:

The voluntary retirement schemes, which were brought in by the HSE at the start of the financial downturn, were aimed primarily at clerical, administration and management supports. I suspect it is probably trying to get back to where it was from that point of view. We have been clear that we believe it should hire many more doctors but I would not say they should not hire other professionals across the system. The system needs to be built up. It would ill-behoves us to say we should not hire more people across the system.