Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion
Mr. Robert Watt:
This is an ongoing issue. We have managed to reduce two grades, a number of years ago. We believe the system is too hierarchical and needs to be flattened. Suppressing grades or elongating scales are very difficult industrial relations, IR, challenges to get agreement upon. My own view is the systems are too hierarchical.