Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances
1:50 pm
Mr. Pat Burke:
It is not unlike a Civil Service Department or anywhere else when somebody steps up for a period of time. Rather than promote them substantively which effectively locks them in, one gives them what is called an acting-up allowance for the period in question.