Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

4:30 pm

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

On the One Person, One Salary, my recollection is that we were looking at that in the course of audits of the various public sector bodies. When the policy was initially introduced we were finding some cases where there were, let us say, board membership fees being paid to people who were in public sector employment but we would have brought those to attention, I think probably around 2011, 2012, 2013, and most of them would be washed out of the system at this stage. It does not appear to be a problem any longer and would not have been for the past four or five years. Now DPER may have codified some of that but they also may not have the information readily available.