Limerick IT staff 'on €72k a year with no work to do' have been redeployed, college says

A Limerick college has responded to claims that a number of its staff were on €72,000-a-year salaries with no work to do by saying those staff have been redeployed into new positions in recent months.

The Public Accounts committee today heard that three or four staff were “surplus to requirements” after Limerick IT merged with a rural business college in Co Tipperary in 2011, but were not laid off. Instead, they were kept on the payroll on annual salaries of €72,000 even though they had “no work to do”.