Garda Síochána pays 15 minutes overtime to members to allow catch-up briefing ahead of their shifts
The Corporate Enforcement Authority refused to honour a traditional pre-shift overtime payment for 16 gardaí seconded to the agency. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesA row broke out between the corporate enforcer and An Garda Síochána over who would pick up the tab for payment of a special allowance to seconded members of the gardaí.
The Corporate Enforcement Authority told An Garda Síochána it would not be paying the allowance, according to emails released under Freedom of Information.A message from the Garda to the authority last summer said: “It is not possible to exclude briefing time from the overtime costs. Briefing time is overtime. “As per the email from ... it will be for the CEA to meet these payments along with any other overtime.
There was also confusion over overtime payments with Garda accountants saying in one email that the corporate enforcement authority had miscalculated rates and did not include “double-time” for overtime that gardaí had worked.
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