Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances
12:45 pm
Mr. Brian Purcell:
Not necessarily. I cannot remember the exact nature of the discussions. A lot of the original consideration of this would have dated back. They first started examining this particular issue in the mid-1990s and an awful lot of consideration and negotiation actually went in. I think the actual period of negotiation probably lasted about three or four years.