Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances
12:10 pm
Mr. Brian Purcell:
I referred earlier to the fact that allowances broadly fall into three categories. One is for whatever circumstances or additional hours are over and above the norm. Another covers special skills, and the last is for expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out duties. If judges had to wear particular attire in those circumstances it is justifiable to say that those would be permitted as allowances.