Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts last week it was made very clear that the bonus scheme in Irish Water was part of the Bord Gáis bonus scheme, which was approved by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, and which had been notified to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Minister's Department is in the loop.

The cuts under the FEMPI legislation are in place. It in incongruous that civil servants are still suffering cuts under the FEMPI legislation while various line Ministers are approving bonus schemes for other public servants in the commercial semi-state sector delivering public services. The issue of the State monopoly companies should be examined separately as the Minister regards them as a different case from the other commercial semi-state bodies.

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