Mr. Dermot Nolan:

I think the average salary is €66,000. We use the term performance related pay. I am not trying to use that pejoratively but I will give a little history to it. When the organisation was set up as an office in 1999, it was then the Commission for Energy Regulation, the salaries were linked to Civil Service salaries. At the time, in order to encourage high quality staff and also to encourage good performance, there was a scheme for performance related pay.