Retired civil servants share €400k pay for state work

Retired public servants last year shared a pay pot of almost €400,000 for sitting on interview boards and assessing applicants seeking jobs in the public service.

In a written Dáil response, Public Expenditure and Reform minister Brendan Howlin confirmed that at any given time 60 retired public officials are helping with recruitment competitions conducted by the Public Appointments Service (PAS).

Mr Howlin said that for these recruitment competitions the PAS avails of trained and experienced retired public servants as interviewers, assessors, and decision arbitrators.