Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances
11:20 am
Mr. Brian Purcell:
It may well have been born of the mechanisms that were in place for negotiation on pay and terms and conditions. In some instances, where there were relativities between specific public service grades, a case might be made for a payment for one grade and because of the relativities, there would have been a-----