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

One of the examples that was given to us was that of the prison service. This is the most recent allowance to be introduced. There was a difficulty regarding overtime payments within the prison service. A dispute took place and a system of 13 different allowances was introduced. On paper that looked extremely complicated, as was acknowledged by the people who were operating it. None the less, it gave them the ability to tailor individual payments to individual people as opposed to operating a blanket overtime system. They argued that there was a saving of approximately €30 million a year. While a consequence was higher complexity, they felt that was worthwhile.