Ms Paula Lyons:

It is done through salary recoupment and in agreement with the individual after correspondence as to what is the overpayment value. It would generally be an agreed amount per pay cycle. Most of our overpayments are of a value of less than €1,000, so it would generally be recouped within 12 months.

I wish to assist on the matter of annual leave. A certain number of those cases were found to be correctly entitled to the level of leave because of arrangements on secondment for various organisations. Local human resource personnel confirmed that a certain percentage were correct. As Ms Murphy-Fagan indicates, the other cases are recouping through annual leave arrangements the excessive annual leave.