Ms Patricia King:

All of the outdoor staff would be affected, whether lorry drivers or on the shovel. By and large, all of these receive allowances that would be affected. Many local authority payments are made on a regular rostered overtime basis and this causes further complication and confusion in the minds of people who are not aware of this as to whether the payment is overtime or an allowance. Recently, the Labour Court issued a recommendation on this with regard to Cavan County Council. It had decided it wanted to remove all embedded overtime from the council workers, but we challenged that.