Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It would not be incumbent upon Mr. Hill to try to negotiate down his salary. I just wonder about it from the FAI point of view. It seems to have regarded this as a target rather than a ceiling. It took the highest possible interpretation of commitment No. 35 in the MOU.

I will just dig down into Ms Joyce's email of 6 December 2022. Could I clarify a point with you, Chair? It is that Aoife Rafferty was invited to be here with us but she could not appear, which is a pity. I think Ms Joyce's email response is quite a good one. She really clarified the position. She said that normally it is bad practice to allow employees to cash in on holidays. She goes on to say it will be important to ensure any exceptions have clear grounds for being so and that unhelpful precedents should not be created. She suggests that Aoife would work directly with Jonathan and establish what his annual leave carryover was likely to be, clarify his request, and make a recommendation to her for approval. Roy Barrett responded to say that made sense, and thanked her. Essentially, she expressed concerns in that email that we could create a precedent by paying days in lieu.