Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised)
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We will consider that as part of the new legislative provisions. We need to be careful to ensure that employees who are the subject of an allegation or disclosure made by somebody else are entitled to their good name. If we have a situation where such persons are cut loose and left to carry huge costs in defending their good name in the performance of their duties for the public good, as they would see it, that would raise serious issues. It is something we can examine as part of the review we are doing into the legislation.
No comments