Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify the number of redundancies, or so called ‘exit-packages’, that have been paid to staff or personnel at any level of seniority in his Department, or in any agency or body under the aegis of his Department, from 2018 to date; the value of each and the total value, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10996/24]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I can confirm to the Deputy that the redundancy / exit packages paid to staff or personnel in my Department from 2018 were issued under the terms of severance / redundancy schemes for Ministerial Personal Staff whose appointments were co-terminous with the relevant Minister / Minister of State. The calculation of severance payments to Ministerial Personal Staff were made in accordance with the guidance issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Redundancy payments were calculated in accordance with statutory redundancy arrangements. Details of the relevant payments issued are as follows:

My Department currently has 19 agencies under its aegis, of which there are 12 commercial and 7 non-commercial agencies.

The Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016 outlines the disclosure requirements for inclusion within the agencies Annual Reports and Financial Statements. These disclosures by the agencies include termination/severance payments and agreements which come to an aggregate value of €1,000 for each reporting period.

4 employees across 3 Transport agencies availed of voluntary redundancy and severance schemes outside of the table below, however, the number of individuals involved means that this information cannot be provided as to do so would infringe on the right of the individuals under General Data Protection Regulations. The cumulative value of these packages was €513,529.

Information requested by the Deputy for the period 2018 to date is outlined in tabular form below.

Information in relation to Iarnród Éireann is currently unavailable and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.