Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection 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 her Department, or in any agency or body under the aegis of h Department, from 2018 to date; the value of each and the total value, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10993/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Since 2018, my Department has not sanctioned or paid any “exit packages” separate from, or in addition to statutory severances. My Department paid out severance payments to Ministerial Personal Staff at the dissolution of the Dáil under the terms laid out by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and has paid redundancies in accordance with statutory entitlements under the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967-2014.

I trust this information is of use to the Deputy.

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Neither my Department or bodies under my aegis, have granted or paid any severance or redundancy packages of €200,000 or above, for the years in question. My Department paid out severance to Ministerial Personal Staff at the dissolution of the Dáil under the terms laid out by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and paid redundancies in accordance with statutory entitlements under the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967-2014 - none of these were in excess of the €200,000.