Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for participating. I do not have many OPW sites in my constituency. I will return to that point in a moment, but one site that we are proud of is the National Botanic Gardens. It is a great local facility that has been used a great deal during the pandemic. I commend the OPW on the way the gardens are managed.

I do not expect the witnesses to have an answer now, but they might revert to the committee on the issue of wage progression and how salaries for general operatives and other grades working in the National Botanic Gardens are managed in terms of the national wage agreement and so on. Most public servants have not seen increases over the past decade or so, but I have concerns about low-paid workers in the gardens. I do not expect the witnesses to have this information with them, or do they?