Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

After all the revelations about exit packages in RTÉ, we have a new revelation about a senior official in the HSE being paid almost €400,000 to leave the organisation. This is an extraordinary amount of money. Does the Tánaiste know how much the public has spent on these sorts of pay-offs over the term of the Government? Does it run into millions, or perhaps many millions? How widespread is this? Does the Tánaiste agree we need to end these extraordinary pay-offs to those at the top of public bodies? We need a pay cap at the top of our public bodies throughout the public sector and we must no longer pay people off with hundreds of thousands of euro to leave very well-paid jobs.

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