Gardaí overpaid officers and civillian staff €4.25m in the last three years
An Garda Síochána overpaid officers and civilian staff to the tune of €4.25 million in salary payments over the past three years.
At the end of last year, the balance still outstanding from overpayments had risen to more than €2.8 million.
Internal audit committee papers said the majority of the cases were linked to sickness absence, with late notification of pay changes identified as a root cause.
One briefing note said the force had discovered cases where its overpayments unit “did not receive any notification” that staff had been overpaid.
Another said a manual process had left “too many opportunities for errors,” according to records that were released under FOI.
The new figures show that €1 million in overpayments were made to 487 gardaí last year, an average of around €2,100 per person.
A further €406,000 was overpaid to 204 civilian staff, roughly €2,000 each.
The amount of money recouped from gardaí last year was just €549,000, with another...
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