Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances
3:10 pm
Mr. Kieran Coughlan:
As part of the scheme, there were staff savings because in the year-end reconciliations we made savings of €150,000 a year on the staffing. So it was a more streamlined administration from our perspective in regards to being end of year. That was one of the reasons advanced for it.