Clerk to the Committee:

We can write to them. Some of those allowances are probably based on legislation but it is a matter we can take up with them. It can be taken up first with the Minister when he is here on the 11th. We can also probably write to the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission which pays these allowances and ask that if it is not within the remit of this body, a separate review should probably be undertaken. I only suggest this because-----