Mr. Neil Richardson:

It is actually military management who handle all matters of budgetary projections. Obviously, they will communicate that with the Department of Defence and between them, that will go forward. It is outside of the scope of our representative association to make that kind of pitch. However, we have done our own statistical analysis on what an active Reserve looks like in terms of cost. If you take the average of an active reservist doing approximately 50 days per annum and apply that to the current number in the Reserve, the 1,700 active reservists we have, it equates to approximately €8.5 million - that is assuming every reservist does 50 days. That would be a very active Reserve. The reality is it is anything between where we are now, at €3.5 million, and €8.5 million as an absolute upper maximum at this point in time for the Reserve.