Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

In my previous experience when I was running the news and current affairs department, I used to review everyone's salary in the news and current affairs department annually. I had the information on their salary and their allowance and I could look at them comparatively. During my time there, I could see that there were one or two women who were being disproportionately underpaid and we corrected their salaries. Therefore, there is a review process. I know that Deirdre McCarthy, who runs the news and current affairs department, is very hot on this. This is an area on which she focuses a lot and she has done so in recent appointments as well, in fairness, as well as on gender equality. There is a process there, but it is not helped by the complexity of the allowances.