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

It is the provision of that clause that has allowed us to make the recommendations we have made on the additional allowances, which were in turn recommended by the Public Service Pay Commission and which I have already said I will act on. The challenge we have with pay is, first, that there is an issue as to what the legal basis for changing wage rates would be, but the bigger issue we would face is the economic consequences of doing so, for the reasons I have outlined already.