Mr. Eamonn Donnelly:

Generally, the people we hold onto go from basic to senior during their careers through longevity anyway. Appointment panels of staff are created all over the country and there is movement from one county to the next and so on. There are gaps in creating the panels and there are recruitment problems in terms of the resources to set all of these things up. A previous report recommended that it would be better if people could advance from basic to senior grade, subject, of course, to criteria checkpoints and quality control checkpoints. That would develop a continuity in the area, rather than this swamp that is caused by people trying to access promotion and competing in other counties, getting jobs in other counties and then looking to get back home, and so on. We see that it would be a better model.

Are there differentiating scales in salary?