Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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To come back to the basis of Mr. Fraser's recommendation, public moneys provide the salary for all public service and Civil Service appointments.

I will ask again. What actuarial figures were put together to apply a differentiation on the basis of value for money between 23 candidates to state we could have somebody internally at a particular cost or externally at a particular cost? I very much fail to believe we did not have anybody of the calibre required in 23 applicants. What was the cost differential?