Mr. Robert Watt:

It is an allowance. If one thinks about the director's allowance, that is clearly a new level and that should be pay. For the private secretary to administer, there is an allowance for a period - for a defined period. So that is higher pay for a period but in the system we have it is easier to say one is getting an allowance and then half of it is going to be taken away when one is no longer doing that job. If one calls that pay, then people say "Well, you're going to then cut my pay when I return to normal duties." However, the point the Deputy makes is correct.