State aids payment of €30m-plus to unions [IrishTimes]
- Published: 06 February 2010
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS and agencies facilitated the deduction of over €30 million in trade union subscriptions from the pay of public service staff last year, it has emerged.
Public service staff were also allowed to take nearly 1,600 days in special paid leave to attend union conferences, meetings or training courses last year.
The details were secured by Fine Gael Deputy Leo Varadkar in reply to a series of parliamentary questions tabled in recent days to various Government Ministers.
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