Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances

1:05 pm

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I know Mr. Donnellan is not giving us an exact answer today but it would be useful for us to have that information. I reiterate that a point of concern for me is the importance of considering who the beneficiaries of an allowance are, in addition to the allowance itself and its costs. If one looks at the grades listed, such as trades officers, clerks and even chief officers, one can see nobody whose salary level jumps out until one gets to governor and prison campus governor level. Then one starts to see what would be considered very generous salaries. We can investigate whether those are merited but, going across those middle and final entries, nothing jumps out at me. How many prison campus governors are there?

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