My Department paid severance and redundancy to Ministerial Personal Staff and Ministerial Advisers on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil under the terms laid out by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and statutory entitlements under the Redundancy payments Acts 1967-2014.
Additionally, my Department paid severance and redundancy to Ministerial Personal Staff and Ministerial Advisers whose contracts were co-terminus with a Minister who resigned during the tenure of the current Government.
My Department has not sanctioned or paid any other exit packages or payments in addition to severance and redundancies outlined above.