Dr. Geraldine Smith:

The table on page 5 of the audit report identifies the allowances those agencies have returned to us, as well as the various categories. The Deputy will see there are 36 allowance types paid by the 36 agencies to 191 managers, which is approximately 53% of the managers they returned. All we know is they have set out here the types of allowances that are in payment. Some have indicated that they were approved by their boards and so on. We have not drilled down into the individual allowances that individual agencies have stated they are paying. The purpose of this exercise was to validate and to identify in the first instance what allowances were being paid in the section 38 agencies, as well as to identify whether there were any bonuses or pension contributions and whether any or all of these were from private or public sources. It was an attempt to identify what was the state of play, because there had been quite a lot of information about these allowances and the possibility that they were being paid.