Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

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

Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion

Photo of Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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On that point, my second question relates to the reference in the opening submission to how "civil servants took a different position from the two Government Ministers" and how no effort is being made to honour the Labour Court recommendation. In Mr. O'Brien's experience, is the taking of such different positions and in the pursuit of different course of actions commonplace? Is it something he has seen happen at another point between Ministers and senior Civil Service officials?