Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies
1:30 pm
Mr. Robert Watt:
There are two aspects here. There are the formal schemes that give rise to most of the payments which are set out here. There is a whole variety of reasons why we make termination payments. There is a scheme in respect of secretarial assistance, of which members of the House would be aware. Where people have worked for a certain number of years for a Deputy or Senator who retires or loses his or her seat, there are payments that recognise the service. That is more a redundancy-type scheme but in this-----
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