Minister, welcome.
Welcome, Mr. McCowan, and Ms. Boyle, as well.
Mr. McCowan, I will just go back to your comment, “from day one”. I understand that. Was it not back paid from day one? I recall—and perhaps my memory is foggy—that this all came about when our previous leader commented that despite this gender equity, the ministers of state, the lower paid junior ministers, were all women. That's when we said, “Oh, no. We're going to go back and fix this.”
Was it in their original letters of offer from the very second they came aboard, or was it back-dated a week or two weeks later?