Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The fact is that there is a set upper figure in the contract for what you can get in overtime. Therefore, it cannot be overtime. Say you are on a one and two rota, for example. By the end of March you will have used up all of your overtime. In other words, even if you come in and do extra hours after that you will not get paid for it, even though you have to come in because of the service you are providing. That should have all of your overtime claimed by the end of March in a lot of those contexts as I understand it.