Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances
2:40 pm
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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To reiterate, it would be useful to see on-call and seasonal allowances broken down by grade. One of the key bodies of work we have been doing in the past number of meetings is to try to look at where the allowances are going and the salary scale of those receiving the allowances so that we have an informed opinion on whether these people are earning a substantial public sector salary or trucking along. We need to have all the information. It would be very useful to have a breakdown of on-call and seasonal allowances. In terms of the reform of public expenditure, we need to establish the potential inconsistency in submissions received from agencies and that might be something we can look at in our own report