Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances
1:20 pm
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Regarding the dirt money allowance which is paid in the university sector at a cost of €48,298 to maintenance and ground staff, I presume it is for dirt on their boots. Is this another anomaly where the system fails to rectify people’s pay levels and gives them allowances to bump them up in line with others? It is certainly a badly named allowance.