Mr. Adam Chambers:

The lack of positions available means those people with the most resources, mainly financial, are the ones who are able to do them. That bottleneck, therefore, means that only those with the most resources can get into these positions. If we open up the number of positions then we allow people who have that sort of merit and ability to be able to come in and fill these roles. The problem is that there are not enough positions for us to get into, which then creates this bottleneck where only those who have the most resources, and who maybe live in Dublin and do not need to pay for accommodation, can step through.

I do not think it is meant to be elitist. It is that people with great experience are falling off because they cannot keep continuing to reach these ever-growing ladders in front of them. It becomes a scenario whereby a person does a degree and a master's and gets experience and now it is free experience. Like Ms Dillon said, people have been doing this now for more than a decade. That means that the people who are then getting through are actually probably not the people who are on merit the best characters for the job.