Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just on the point about the discrepancy of the funding, we are talking about two of the superintendents that are outside the public service, and there is a huge discrepancy between the amount of funding between the lowest paid superintendent and the highest paid superintendent among all of them.

As the Minister has suggested, these are public funds. All of the education authorities are provided funding for all of their staff, teachers and including superintendents. That’s based on the latest Hay Plan pay grid. However, for superintendents who are outside of the public service, their contracts are negotiated with their DECs and anything above and beyond the amount that has been determined according to the Hay Plan, then those funds come out of operational funds for the education authority.