Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

In other public bodies outside the Civil Service. While returns for all public bodies for 2005 have not yet been received, the outstanding returns, including the local authorities, which have shown good achievement in previous years, show an average rate of 3.5% on 1 January 2004. Therefore, improvements are taking place and we are satisfied that this trend is ongoing. In respect of Departments, the last figures I have are for 2002 when, as I have said, it was 2.78%.