The commission should be empowered to deal with its finance and staff and the organisation of the office. The Minister is anxious to maximise the autonomy of the commission, but he is equally determined to retain his controlling powers on pay, pensions and conditions of members and personnel paid from the commission's budget. This provision is not a grab at local power to stymie the commission or members. It is unavoidable in a country where public service pay accounts for a massive chunk of public expenditure, where comparability is often a determinant of pay rates for groups which have no ostensible contact and where unions and members assiduously track down anomalies in small organisations which can be used to build pay increases across a wide front.