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)
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I think it is important to make the point that there is no increase in salary relative to what the previous incumbent was on. The salary for that particular post has not been increased. We went through a process with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and NewERA on this. Because it is a commercial State body, my own role as Minister in this regard is to give consent or choose not to give consent to a salary level that is being proposed by the Minister. There was contact over a number of months between the two Departments. My Department requested further information from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to it. We would have requested a business case. A business case was prepared and assessed by NewERA and it recommended the salary level that ultimately was agreed upon. It fell to me then as Minister to give consent, which I did. In that particular case the level of salary was at the same level as the previous incumbent in that post.
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