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)
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I do not know how I would feel if I had agreed a salary package with an additional €81,000 and it subsequently turned out that the person who got the job was already doing it for a substantially lower figure. I am not sure how any business person could consider himself or herself as such after that.
It was mentioned earlier that, on top of the €81,000 pay rise that has been discussed, the Secretary General of the Department of Health got a subsequent increase, in November, of almost €3,000. He got a further increase of €3,000 yesterday. Did the Minister sign off on, or have any role in agreeing to, those two wage hikes?
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