Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----they would have an awful lot to say about that. I do not want to exaggerate it but there are always countervailing pulls on them to work elsewhere. If we are to get people of the quality we need to do this really specialist work, we need to be able to pay rates that will hold on to them. What we have got in direct negotiations is that we will have the information released at least in bands, so we will know what they are paid in bands of €25,000 which is an improvement on where we are. Incrementally, we will get to the full situation so that we know to the euro what people are paid.