Mr. Michael Moroney:

The Department has not confirmed whether the register will be recognised or not but that will not deter us from putting a register together and trying to raise standards within the sector. We have continued to make representations to the Department on this point over the last four years and will continue to do so. It is an important objective for us and it is important that we raise standards and have an identifiable way of doing so. We will continue to work on that until we have something successful in place. That should not be too far away as we have a good deal of work done on that.

I will pass over to Mr. Hughes, our chairman, to answer on labour. He is quite close to dealing with that question.