Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 March 2024
32. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications 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. [10984/24]
View answer33. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11013/24]
View answer35. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to list all staff/management exit packages for staff/management in their Departments that they sanctioned since 2016 (details supplied). [11158/24]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 32, 33 and 35 together.
Redundancy or severance payments in the Civil Service generally arise with respect to specific categories of employees, as determined by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (DPENDR) and approved by Government.
My Department had no payments in 2016 or 2017. In the period since 2018, the total amount paid by my Department in this regard was €325,357.27 in respect of severance payments and €23,136 in respect of redundancy payments. These amounts have been aggregated in order not to identify the amounts paid to any individual person.
The information requested in relation to the agencies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for each agency. The Department will request the relevant bodies to reply directly to the Deputy with the information requested in respect of their organisations.
|
Year |
Number of Severance Payments |
Number of Redundancy payments |
|
2018 |
4 |
0 |
|
2019 |
0 |
0 |
|
2020 |
3 |
2 |
|
2021 |
0 |
0 |
|
2022 |
0 |
0 |
|
2023 |
1 |
0 |
