€30k pay bump for acting Garda commissioner

Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin is to be paid the full €180,613 salary his predecessor Nóirín O’Sulivan got, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

€30k pay bump for acting Garda commissioner
Wed, 04 Oct, 2017 - 01:00
Daniel McConnell

Robert Watt, the secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, has accepted a request from Noel Waters, secretary general at the Department of Justice, to increase the salary.

Deputy commissioners normally are paid €152,162 according to official figures.

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