Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As it has evolved, the allowance system within the public sector strikes me as cumbersome. I expect it is difficult to administer. The representative bodies came in the 1990s. The military service allowance has been there since 1979 which is over 30 years ago. That is clearly core pay. Why was that not incorporated into core pay? That is the bones of ten or 12 years prior to the representative bodies.