Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I see the point Mr. Quinn is making but I am making a different point. When one is doing a business plan for the year ahead, it is based on a comparative of what happened in the previous year. In this case, this is 2016 and is mirrored in the accounts. In theory they should equal each other but they do not. Maybe they were calculated differently. Maybe it was based on actual people at that time.

It could be as a basis of the weeks they worked. It could be a different calculation. Maybe it is something to look at.

Staff costs went up by 6.5%. Looking at note 4, pensions went up by 72% to €728,000 from €422,000. What is driving that?