Ms Geraldine Tallon:

The county manager does not receive allowances. There are five grades of county manager. At level one is the Dublin city manager. It is, I suppose, the premier position within the local government management structure. The majority of managers are levels four and five. Some 25 or 26 of the 34 managers are at those levels. The manager pay scale runs from roughly €130,000 at level five to €185,000 or thereabouts at level one.