Mr. Robert Watt:

We have an agreement - the Haddington Road agreement - which stands up until 2016. We will then have to negotiate a new pay round covering 2016 to 2017 or 2018. We hope to be sitting down again at some stage in the second half of 2015 and negotiating with the union representatives. My own view on pay, accepting that policy is an issue for the Minister, is that it would be good to see much more flexible pay arrangements and a move to different forms of remuneration. However, there are lots of complications in the context of the structure of grades, increments, incentive structures and so forth. There is not much support for incentive structures at the moment, politically or otherwise. However, more mature and sophisticated pay structures would certainly help us in the context of driving performance and improving the system. However, as the Deputy knows, the debate is complex.