Mr. Bernard O'Regan:

They are also being recruited into primary care and acute services and there are also other organisations, which we fund, that are recruiting those pools of staff. When we engage with staff on panels or through recruitment, they often have choices about where they go. They are often electing to go to a service area that interests them or one that they want to pursue as a career option that suits them geographically or whatever. In that sense, our experience has been that in any kind of a decent year we can recruit perhaps somewhere in the region of 150 to 200 staff. However, that is assuming that those candidates, in the face of so many choices that they have, take the choice of working in children’s services. They are not always taking that choice.