Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances

12:00 pm

Mr. Brian Purcell:

We have our payroll services in Killarney. In this regard, a recent examination of benchmarking and the delivery of payroll services by our shared services centre in Killarney showed it was the most cost-effective, right across the system. It is an indication of the tremendous job being done by the staff in the payroll section in Killarney that they can cater for what is, as the Deputy noted, this mammoth, difficult and complex task. However, one of the disadvantages-----