Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016
9:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
It concerned a challenge to the sick leave changes and changes to entitlements which we introduced a number of years ago. It was a significant reform. Previously, those on sick leave were on full pay for six months and half pay for six months. That has been changed to three months and three months. There is also a critical illness protocol, whereby those suffering from various critical illnesses are treated in a different category. On behalf of gardaí, the GRA challenged this reform. It went through various iterations of the courts' system. We ultimately won the case, but there were issues about the way in which it had been handled and so forth. We were not awarded costs and were disappointed with that outcome. I do not believe we have yet received the final adjudication on costs yet. The matter it is still outstanding.
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