Mr. Barry O'Brien:

No. We were given a deadline and from that deadline no new person could attract any allowance or no existing person could be put given an allowance in a new way. The Deputy must remember that hundreds of public servants are awaiting the outcome of the review to know if they will have an entitlement to be paid. In other words, if their allowance was approved to continue, they would be a retrospective element to February, and that has been resolved.

We had a number of people in health where that allowance will now continue but we have not paid any allowance since February.