Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to list all staff/management exit packages for staff/management in their Departments that they sanctioned since 2016 (details supplied). [11164/24]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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My Department ensures that staff/management exit packages are managed in compliance with the requirements of DPENDR Circular 09/2018 which sets out standards for arrangements for the offer of severance terms in the civil and public service.

Severance terms sanctioned by the Department of Public Expenditure, NPD Delivery and Reform are based on salary, aligned to civil service pay scales, and years’ service. All such severance/ex-gratia payments are calculated and paid out by the National Shared Services Office and published each year in the Department’s Appropriation Account.

I am informed that for the period requested the only severance payments relate to Ministerial personal staff who were employed on temporary contracts and were entitled to severance/ex-gratia payments, including statutory redundancy when such contracts were terminated, which occurred following a change of Government in 2016 and again in 2020.

Details of these severance payments are provided in the table below.