Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances

1:20 pm

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Regarding the dirt money allowance which is paid in the university sector at a cost of €48,298 to maintenance and ground staff, I presume it is for dirt on their boots. Is this another anomaly where the system fails to rectify people’s pay levels and gives them allowances to bump them up in line with others? It is certainly a badly named allowance.