Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances

11:10 am

Mr. Michael Donnellan:

The change negotiated as part of the 2005 agreement was significant because the overtime bill was running at huge sums before then. The annualised hours system has brought a structure to the way we operate within the Irish Prison Service, but it is not without its challenges. We are currently-----