Ten government ministers still do not have a repayment plan in place after they were overpaid following errors around their pension deductions.
The revelation was this evening described as unacceptable by the Sinn Féin spokesperson on Finance, Pearse Doherty.
It followed confirmation by Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers that there are still ten ministers who must put a plan in place to repay the money after overpayments came to light last year.
Mr Chambers told the Oireachtas Finance Committee that these ministers are engaging with the National Shared Services Office.
The Minister said that another 24 ministers have either received refunds or they have entered into repayment plans.
“We have just learnt that ten ministers who were overpaid by as much as tens of thousands of euros are still not even in a repayment plan to reimburse Revenue,” said Mr Doherty.
“These are people who are earning in excess of €200,000 and the same ministers that voted to leave workers and families worse off in this year’s budget.
“It is unjustifiable for ministers to not be in a repayment plan. It is that simple,” he said.
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