Acting Garda commissioner to get €30k pay increase

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