Mr. Michael Donnellan:

This goes back to my previous point, which is that we have introduced a new grade in the Irish Prison Service of administrative and support officer. Previously we had prison officer clerk grades who serviced the committees. In future these committees will be serviced by the new administrative grade which will not receive any allowances. We are trying to develop a system whereby the committees will administer themselves. Therefore, all of these allowances will be gone when the administrative grade is fully introduced.