Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I will ask the Minister a question that I have often asked him here at these meetings about the report No. 42 and the employees of the State affected by it.
They were at the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court or wherever and won all that. I understand that representatives from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform did not turn up to the last meeting. These former employees, some of whom continue to be employed in the health services in particular, have not been paid according to the recommendations. It has been recommended that they be paid. I understand that the Department of Health may be holding up those payments. Because this is an issue arising for people working for the State waiting for their payments, the Department of public expenditure and reform should be involved. I know it had involvement in the court hearings. What is the up-to-date position?
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