Ms Paula Lawler:

A number of employers are involved with different payroll systems and local site-specific allowances. We have been working with them on those. We had already submitted the national allowances that exist on the consolidated pay scales. We were happy that we had met the bulk of the allowances under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform review in the timeframe we had. We have been working with the voluntary sector on more site-specific areas and also to gather its costs and numbers on national allowances.