Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances
11:40 am
Mr. John Clinton:
The majority of allowances are pensionable owing to the fact that they all evolved through the Civil Service conciliation and arbitration scheme. They were awarded to us either through the conciliation council or the arbitration board and are pensionable if deemed to be allowances in the nature of pay. Any allowance payable for additional hours of attendance is not pensionable. Plain clothes allowances are not pensionable and-----