Mr. Philip Crosby:

It is broader than the education sector. Much of this has its history in the fact that this pertains to general operatives and higher order attendants who are relatively low-paid staff. While the Deputy should not hold me to the precise details, at some point one of these groups of staff received a pay determination that leapfrogged them ahead of another group. Thereafter, use was made of the joint labour committee mechanism.

There were mechanisms put in place to give allowances across multiple sectors and adjust for that without creating a scala mobileof people moving up pay scales all the time. That is from where those allowances tended to come.