Mr. John Hogan:

I think there has been pressure on the PAS system over the last number of years. We had a recent update at the Civil Service management board on this. There is a real focus on recasting the way PAS is doing its recruitment process, shortening it, looking at ways it can be more responsive and seeing if there are elements of the process that it can compress in order to be much more responsive to Departments and their needs. It has had difficulties over the last while. With us going out and recruiting directly, it relieves some of the pressure on PAS itself. There is a dual mandate for us in terms of what we want to do for ourselves but also to relieve that pressure on PAS.