Mr. Ger Brophy:

It could be 12 or 14 weeks or it could be six months or a year if people are coming from outside the country. Typically, when we are recruiting from abroad, people apply to CORU for registration because you have to be registered to work in the country. They will get a letter outlining to them that maybe they need to do 630 or 1,000 hours of work to become qualified and they need to do that in a supervised placement. We introduced a grade some years ago, which is an interim children's services worker, so that we could accommodate people returning from maternity leave or other places where they had not been registered, or people coming from abroad. We would take them on at that new grade. We would give them the supervised hours, and then they would qualify for CORU. We are trying to be creative in terms of getting people qualified as well.