Senior public servants should get year's pay when their term ends, review says

Robert Watt moved from the top job in the Department of Public Expenditure to the Department of Health. 

Top civil servants should be given a year's pay or another job when their seven-year term as secretary-general of a department comes to an end, a review has said.

Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe has published the final report of the Independent Review Panel on Senior Public Service Recruitment and Pay Processes, set up in the wake of Robert Watt's move from the top job in the Department of Public Expenditure to the Department of Health.