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

A delegation from the Defence Forces appeared before us. I think they have 63 allowances. Prison officers have 64 allowances while this list states that the gardaí have 108 allowances. I take on board completely the point made by Mr. Stone that some of these allowances will be duplicates, as Mr. Redmond noted. There still appears to be a large number of them on paper in comparison to what I have seen in different organisations across the public service. Does anybody have any comments on that?