Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances

2:00 pm

Mr. Pat Burke:

I take that point. If the Croke Park agreement means anything, it must mean much greater preparedness to go outside the lines of demarcation. As a public service we should require this in any event and therefore allowances, or any extra payment mechanism which obtains for the future, should logically only apply in a situation of real stretch where there is something significantly additional that almost takes a person's activity out of the realm of his or her grade so to speak.