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. Gerry Quinn:

They have been put in place as a result of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Also, however, some of those improvements, as Ms Joyce outlined, were put in place for exactly the reason Deputy Connolly outlined. The revised probation policy was not, in itself, a direct consequence of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. It was our analysis that, with a 12-month probation policy, certain issues were not emerging and that the focus on performance was not strong enough. That, for example, was put in place ahead of-----

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