Mr. Robert Watt:

The Croke Park agreement was an enabler. It enabled transformation to take place across the system. It did not have the variety of specific measures that the Haddington Road agreement has. Most of the savings we are delivering now, such as pay cuts of €220 million, the abolition of twilight payments, the suspension of supervision and substitution in education, reductions in overtime rates and increases in hours worked, are specific measures which we have delivered. We are very happy to account to Deputy Fleming and this committee, and for each Secretary General to account for his or her portion of it. The previous system was appropriate for the Croke Park agreement but was not relevant for the Haddington Road agreement because the savings under the latter are set out and embedded in the Vote allocations for Departments. For this year we have further savings of approximately €450 million in pay and they are allocated across the different Votes. The appropriate mechanism is for this committee and other committees to set out a budget for each pay item and ascertain whether they have delivered and, if not, why.