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:
Yes, there has been a lot of analysis. There are people with repeat absences on a Monday. If we see a pattern, it is investigated by HR. There is always a balance to be struck with persons who are genuinely ill. Like all good employers, we want to be compassionate. Where someone is genuinely ill, he or she receives all of the support possible to help him or her to get back on his or her feet and return to work. When it come to persons, for whom there is a pattern of repeat absences because they just do not fancy working on a particular day, it is something we do not tolerate. There were times when a blind eye would have been turned to this, when HR was not sufficiently well developed to work with managers, but now we are pressing ahead with a much more interventionist and activist approach when it comes to repeat absences. It is an issue.
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