Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances

1:10 pm

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I do not expect Mr. Crosby to have the data to hand. Not to speak for him, I refer to the concept espoused by Deputy Deasy to the effect that some allowances have sprung up. The committee needs to try to get a handle on whether there is an element of some local sectors within the education system perhaps being more proactive in the pursuit of allowances than others. This is a subject to which members may need to return. However, I find it hard to believe it is just one caretaker in a single VEC who does not have somewhere to eat lunch. Do the witnesses have any thoughts in this regard?