Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cumulative total of unapproved salary top-ups currently being paid under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27082/14]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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On foot of a request from the Committee of Public Accounts, employers in the Education Sector were asked by my Department to confirm that their organisations were in compliance with public pay policy as set down by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

In this context the Heads of Education Sector employers under the remit of the Department certified that no employees in their organisations were in receipt of remuneration greater than the level set down by the Minister and that all allowances paid to employees, with the exception of a small number of allowances which are in the process of being regularised, had the appropriate sanction of the Minister. Confirmation of this was reported in detail by my Department to the Committee of Public Accounts in May of this year.