Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegation. I have a series of questions I will go through one by one. The format we decided upon whereby the representatives of the employees sit alongside the employers shows that this will be a fruitful way of looking at the issue. If we only heard one voice or each voice at separate times, we would have missed the point. I very much hope we can replicate this when we go through all our hearings.

My first question relates to some information shared with us by the Department of Defence. It relates to when we asked it to set out the percentage of total compensation that consists of basic pay, core pay and allowances. Could we put this up on screen for the purposes of discussion? Questions 2 and 3 were answered. While our colleague is displaying that on screen, I will read out some of the figures. Could each of the parties give me their views on the figures we have heard? I will use figures for enlisted personnel but the same trend exists for officers. It is the screenshot showing questions two and three.