Ms Louise McGirr:

No, they are not. There are equivalents across Government and they all have different numbers. They come under the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Department of Justice and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. There are lots of different bodies that were set up over many years and which are the main providers of Government services. These organisations are not covered by public sector pay agreements and are not bound by modernisation measures. We do not know what has happened to the pay. We can assume the bodies have not been able to fund pay increases but we do not know for sure.