A tribunal has awarded €30,000 to Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue's former ministerial driver who was subject to"egregious treatment" when he was let go on Christmas Day to make way for a garda to replace him on security grounds.
His solicitor, Ellen Walsh of Sean Ormonde Solicitors, said the Department of Agriculture’s handling of the matter was a"fiasco" which failed to honour her client’s employment rights, branding it a"sham redundancy". That meant civilian drivers stayed on the Department of Agriculture rota to serve Minister of State Martin Heydon, who does not sit at Cabinet.Giving evidence, Mr Shaw said:"When the two financial ministers lost their civilian drivers, in January , all the rest of the drivers, every Tuesday when Cabinet was on, the talk would be going round about what was happening."Some guards had moved in. We’d been told: 'Lads, the writing’s on the wall, you’ll all be gone by summer’.
He said the extent of Mr Shaw’s efforts to find new work had to be weighed against the conduct of the respondent. This, he said, had been"egregious". "There was no provision for a voluntary redundancy package in the government decision," Mr Corbett said.
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