Travel and Subsistence Rates to be Cut

DeirdreD

A little birdie has told me that travel and subsistence for civil servants is to be cut e.g. instead of approx 143euro per night reduced to approx 100euro.

Makes sense with decreasing hotel prices.

What of other busisnesses/semistate organisations? My friend works with ESB and boasts 190 euro for every overnight ( is this true - seems mad especially as they got a recent pay increase? )

And what of us that have to pay it ourselves!!!

Any thoughts? Just throwing it out there

DeirdreD

DeirdreD wrote: »

A little birdie has told me that travel and subsistence for civil servants is to be cut e.g. instead of approx 143euro per night reduced to approx 100euro.

Makes sense with decreasing hotel prices.

What of other busisnesses/semistate organisations? My friend works with ESB and boasts 190 euro for every overnight ( is this true - seems mad especially as they got a recent pay increase? )

And what of us that have to pay it ourselves!!!

Any thoughts? Just throwing it out there

Not too sure how trustworthy the infomration is about civil servant cuts either it could all be a pipe-dream!!

javaboy

Moved from After Hours.

*Honey*

I would agree with it if it actually happened - the mileage rate for a start is madness.

I've not heard of any changes being announced however.

Riskymove

It has happened, a 25% cut in all domestic rates

oh...and the levy is applied to any allowances or overtime too!

DeirdreD

Riskymove wrote: »

It has happened, a 25% cut in all domestic rates

oh...and the levy is applied to any allowances or overtime too!

Seems like a pretty realistic measure to reduce expenditure.

What would cuts in allowances refer to I wonder?

TGPS

DeirdreD wrote: »

A little birdie has told me that travel and subsistence for civil servants is to be cut e.g. instead of approx 143euro per night reduced to approx 100euro.

Makes sense with decreasing hotel prices.

What of other busisnesses/semistate organisations? My friend works with ESB and boasts 190 euro for every overnight ( is this true - seems mad especially as they got a recent pay increase? )

And what of us that have to pay it ourselves!!!

Any thoughts? Just throwing it out there

I work in an agency of the government and quite frankly I don't see why there should be an unvouched for system of expenses.

Expenses should only be reimbursed where they've been incurred and then only up to a predetermined limit. There's always been stories circulating (mostly apocryphal, I bet) about people sleeping in cars and claiming an overnight.

The mileage rate should at least halve.

I know there are counter-arguments against vouched for expenses, but I think they are quite weak.

Finally, I'm not sure hacking away at expenses will yiled up the 2+ billion we need, but it sends out an important signal.

http://thisgruntledpublicservant.blogspot.com/

cogITere

I fully concour with TGPS, and the fact that these allowaces are for "unreceipted expenses" is a disgrace that should not have ever been tolerated.

These allowances seem to be every where in the public sector from Civial Servants and our infamous TDs. Recent article in the Sunday Tribune (22/02 and follow up in 01/03) stating how two opposition country TDs who live together in Dublin could "double" claim their overnight allowance!!.

This one step will save the country some money, but more importantly will eliminate the abuse of these allowances.