Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To be fair to people, it is reasonable. It was accepted in the public sector pay agreement. It is now a question of which prioritised disciplines we want to get to first and engaging with the unions and professional associations on that. In the meantime, people have, by and large, been quite flexible. We now have 2,600 consultants on the public-only consultant contract, which is well over 50% of the consultant workforce.

To be fair to consultants, we can roster as many of them on a Saturday or on a Thursday night as we want but if they are going to function, we have to build the rest of the infrastructure around them to do that. That is the part we are progressing. If the Deputy was to ask me if something could blow us off course, it would be if we overcooked things and it took us too long to get there.