Civil servants vow to fight cut to payment for meetings

Senior civil servants have vowed to fight the abolition of their allowance for representing Ireland at meetings of the EU and other international organisations.

A payment of €212 for the first night away from home and €69 after that is paid to civil servants who earn over €125,000. Those on salaries below that get an allowance of €218 for the first night.

It is the only one of 1,100 allowances scrapped following a review of the system by Brendan Howlin, the minister for public expenditure and reform.