Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Public Accounts Committee
Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011
12:00 pm
Mr. Colin Bray:
For this individual, the total value of the initial contract was €100,000, which was made up of 80% fixed salary and a 20% variable in respect of performance. During that period, the figure of €80,000 was reduced in line with reductions in salary for all of our other staff. This was a fixed-term contract for two years. It was extended because of the extension of the downturn in the economy and the challenges we faced. That contract was terminated when the job was done, we had control over our bottom line and the delivery had been completed. Obviously, there was no pension liability with regard to the additional 20%. In respect of the challenges we faced, if we had changed the terms of the engagement with that expert, there was a high risk that the expert would not have remained to complete what we needed to do to ensure we had control over our bottom line.