John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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We will come back to them if Mr. Purcell can find them. Officials from the Department of Education and Skills appeared before the committee yesterday. My interest in this area relates to the origins of allowances and how they are deemed to be pensionable. When representatives of the Garda Síochána are in attendance next week, I will ask them how the radio allowance paid to gardaí was deemed to be pensionable. Is some kind of golden manual used as a resource in the Department when a decision is being made in a particular area? Is the Department of Finance contacted to figure out whether something should be pensionable? Do the officials understand where I am coming from? If the Department is contacted by a trade union about something that has come up, do officials get around a table with their counterparts in the Department of Finance to figure out whether it should be pensionable? How does the system work?