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)

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

The Government sees itself as a government of fiscal prudence. It regularly tells people to lower their expectations with regard to pay rises. Whole sectors of the public service, such as the Defence Forces, have been waiting for pay rises for a long period and have been refused them. Yet we have this significant largesse at this critical level of the Civil Service. Is the wage performance-related?

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