Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - 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 Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source
My point is that salaries operate in comparison to each other. They relate to each other. They are not independent of each other. In answer to the question I asked on this particular salary the Minister said this particular salary is fully independent and isolated from all other salaries and will not be used as a benchmark or a tool by anybody to look for salary increase in future. This underlines and reiterates the points in the report and the public concern about this. This salary debacle was independent of any process or system and independent of other people's salaries.
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