Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

The Deputy has highlighted a couple of specific examples. Only about 2% of our pay bill comprises these smaller allowances. That is not atypical of the public service. In terms of the warden of Trinity Hall, and I know there is a specific person, that is not pensionable and that allowance is personal to the holder. When that holder departs from the job that allowance will not be in place. We have worked through a lot of processes with university allowances.

The transport liaison officer, TLO, allowance is pensionable. We are in an industrial relations process currently with the chief executive officers of vocational education committees because that responsibility has ended. We are in the middle of the various industrial relations mechanisms of the State. We hope to have an outcome of a hearing on that in November and therefore we cannot talk in too much detail about that. There are a couple of legal cases around that also but we are working on ceasing that where we can.