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THE DEPARTMENT OF Public Expenditure and Reform today announced its review of the various allowances currently claimed by members of the public service.
The review breaks down its recommendations on the necessity of these allowances into three sections: Those they recommend be kept and given to new workers, those they recommend be modified in some way for future employees – and those that they think should no longer be given to new employees.
Almost 1,000 allowances are in place, according to figures from the department. Minister Brendan Howlin said today that his department will not realise the savings of €75m it had hoped to make by reforming the allowance system.
The following are among the public service allowances which the department would like to see kept in future for all new and current beneficiaries:
Across all sectors:
PUBLIC SERVICE
Education:
Defence
Local Government
Garda Sector
HSE
CIVIL SERVICE
Irish Prisons Service
Revenue
Justice
Social Protection
Agriculture, Fisheries and Marine
Office of Public Works
Central Statistics Office
NON-COMMERCIAL STATE AGENCIES
Road Safety Authority
National Museum of Ireland
Chester Beatty
IMMA
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Health and Safety Authority
Teagasc
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Let us hope the families finally get justice for what happened that terrible bloody Sunday.
Murdered by a foreign army on Irish soil…
@pat murphy: horse guards
If it was the case that the soldiers were given advance orders to shoot should they feel it was warranted then that order should be traced up the chain of command. I don’t believe it was a spur of the moment decision
@Brian Jones: I don’t think they needed to feel it was warranted. I was listening to an interview by one of the relatives the other day and he said that one of the soldiers that gave evidence to Saville said that he looked down the barrel of his gun but could see no justification for shooting so he didn’t pull the trigger. Others didn’t seem to care whether it was justified or not.
Will be amazed if these people receive justice, UK 2ont like to admit that it’s own army murdered people
@Barry Somers: agree , but every army murders people!
@Barry Somers: unlikely they will see justice, British soldiers, British courts, British jury…..
Had the pleasure of meeting with these wonderful people from Derry recently when they came to Dublin to support our fight for Justice for the Stardust 48.
We wish them all the best in their quest for Justice. As I have said before…. TRUTH+JUSTICE=PEACE
Give these families justice and peace enough is enough
Like all historic trouble related murders in N.Ireland, it’s time to let go of the past and move on to the future. All trouble related crimes on all sides committed before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement should be subject to a general amnesty. Nobody murdered on any side of the troubles is coming back. Death is a one way street, a shared future is a two way street. Let go of the past and move on to a better, brighter shared future.
@Charles Williams: Easier said than done Charles.
@Charles Williams What you say would make perfect sense but some scars will only begin to heal when everyone associated with them is dead and even then …
@Charles Williams:
The British army were never charged, imprisoned, admitted or apologised for their murders, so they’re not covered by the GFA – which also they were against.
And yet there are still people who were British blood stained poppies.
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