Mr. Jim Nugent:

No, the contract states his salary. The salary is as the figure the Deputy gave in gross terms, that is, €200,000-odd at the final pitch but obviously, it was not at that level 25 years ago. It grew on foot of all kinds of pay rises, national wage agreements, the benchmarking that took place over the years and it arrived at a figure. That figure is the contractual figure the Central Remedial Clinic has with the employee. This is what we are responsible for delivering and had we broken all of the individual contracts, this is common to a lot of organisations, had we gone down to all the people who were given a new salary level and told them they were not getting any more than that, we would be breaking their contracts. They could sue on it and we estimate one could be into millions of compensation.