Mr. Brian Kavanagh:

There is a conflict between that requirement and some of the contractual arrangements we have with senior staff from a GDPR perspective, particularly in our subsidiary companies where one person would be readily identifiable under those disclosure requirements. We applied to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for dispensation from that circular and received it.

Likewise, there is a circular that requires disclosure of that information for parties to which we provide grant funding. Again, the grant funding we provide is for capital projects or vouched expenditure and it is not for salaries. We discussed this at length with the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We provide the necessary information to the Department by band, etc., but it is not published in our annual report.