Detailing top civil servant salaries could raise 'potential legal issues'

The PAC along with the Oireachtas Finance Committee issued a damning report into how Mr Maloney’s predecessor Robert Watt was awarded a salary of nearly €300,000 a year

Detailing the actual salaries of top civil servants to the Dáil’s spending watchdog could raise “potential legal issues” the country’s top money civil servant will say on Thursday.

David Maloney, Secretary-General at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will go before the Public Accounts Committee and respond to demands from the committee for specific details as to how much money top civil servants are paid.