Mr. Tom Geraghty:

It may be no harm to clarify that this process has not been conducted under the mechanisms in the Croke Park agreement. This was a unilateral review undertaken by the employer. Our views were never sought in respect of the allowances. I am not volunteering that they should. The fact is that our views were not sought. It will be a matter between individual unions and individual employers to process the wish of the employer to either eliminate or reduce allowances.