Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances

12:40 pm

Photo of John DeasyJohn Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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To return to 1920, Mr. Ó Foghlú has said the qualifications allowance was introduced then and it was adapted after the Ryan tribunal of 1968. What was the rationale for the introduction of the qualifications allowance going back to that time?