John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Representatives from the Department of Education and Skills have come before us. When one goes through the different Departments, one can see that Department gets more allowances than any other. The allowances come to about €600 million and in some cases, they are for particular VECs. It seems that people would sometimes contact the trade unions and then the Departments. They would sit around a table and create an allowance just to keep people happy in some cases. These then evolved into pensionable allowances. What is the formula within the Department of Justice and Equality when it comes to the creation of an allowance and then a pensionable allowance?