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In the letter to the cabinet secretary, it would be incumbent on us to acknowledge his contribution to date, which has been to intervene directly to ensure that an independent intermediary was appointed.
The recovery plan was due to provide full functionality by August 2011 and we are now talking about a completion date of summer 2012—a delay of 12 months.
The information should be sufficient to identify those people (for example name, address and date of birth) and should record whether a person wants to donate organs or tissue and, if so, which organs or tissue.
Can you give us an update on what the profile looks like now and whether the use of agency nursing has increased? I am happy to do that. Our nurse bank numbers have increased. I think that over the past week we have gone up to having about 1,300 nurses in our bank.
As an organisation, we try to provide tenants with as much information as possible through our rental data bank and helplines. However, with a three-year rent cycle, tenants have to face a bit of a hurdle every three years.
Is that not the case with most contracts in the voluntary sector? No. Most contracts have a start date and an end date. We had our end date, and now the question has been raised about whether what we understand about the contract is correct.