Mr. David Moloney:

As I say, the matter of whether someone would waive a portion of his or her salary is up to the individual Secretary General. I do not believe there is a policy role relating to that. That would have to be taken at an individual level as opposed to a collective level. Clearly, there are structures within the Civil Service that set out what pay grades are appropriate to particular levels. Obviously, those pay structures have emerged and have been put in place in respect of Secretaries General. If we go back to the wages and salary levels of the higher Civil Service in 2008 and 2009, we know they were very much higher than they are now. We also know that those reductions in salary scales from 2008 to 2013 have been the last reductions to come up for unwinding under the FEMPI legislation. In fact, they are not yet fully unwound.