Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
9:00 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
We would always keep the legal trends of engagement under review. I am not aware of any single one where a policy intervention would be an appropriate measure. However, we have regular updates that we examine within the Department to see where the trends of legal actions are going. For example, we would have quite a number of challenges in the pay area, in terms of the steps we took on pay during the downturn. Hopefully, some of those will be resolved in pay agreements going forward. That is an example of one area. We have more actions in the patronage area now than we had in the past as we have become more active on that issue. There can be different actions at different times.
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