Mr. Maurice Quinn:

In 2009 we put a lot of effort into removing Border duty allowance from payment. An arbitration report was done at the time, which said that people should hold this on a personal to holder basis so that as these people left the Defence Forces the payment would work its way through. Nobody, since 2009, has gone on to or is in receipt of the Border duty allowance. As part of the Haddington Road agreement, we made another approach on the Border duty allowance.

There is a formula in the Haddington Road agreement to buy out such allowances and that process is ongoing. I stress that where a person is in receipt of a Border duty allowance-----