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
It strikes me that the agreement is collective when it suits and is an individual arrangement when it does not. The Minister was asked earlier about the position of waiving salaries and he mentioned that I, as a Deputy, will get an increase at some stage this year. I will waive it, in the same way the Minister does in respect of a portion of his salary. He said something that I thought was strange. He stated it was none of his business whether people waive a portion of their salary. Am I not correct in stating that when anybody within the public sector waives a portion of his or her salary, that goes back to the Exchequer to be spent on other areas?
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