The Department of Finance issues circulars and confidential circulars from time to time setting out practice for Departments on matters for which the Department of Finance has responsibility.
These circulars cover many subject areas for which the Department has responsibility, including various personnel and remuneration concerns, such as pay and allowances, leave, career breaks, confined competitions, etc..
The Personnel Code website, assembles relevant circulars, circular letters and letters to heads of Departments or Personnel Officers on personnel matters. It can be accessed at www.personnelcode.gov.ie
Circular 2/2008. Retention of civils ervants beyond the normal retiring age - maximum income limits allowable on hardship grounds.
Appointment on a secondment basis in the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces . Assistant Principal (Investigator) Standard Scale
Ref: E105/1/08 26th June 2008 Circular 13/2008: Motor Travel Rates
E105/3/2008 26 June 2008 Circular 14/2008: Subsistence Allowances
Ref: E105/8/7529 August. 2008 Circular 19/2008: Subsistence Allowances AbroadA Dhuine Uasail1. I am directed by the Minister for Finance to refer to the rates of subsistence allowance payable to civil servants in respect of absences abroad on official business, as set out in the Appendix to Circular 19/2008.
Circular 20/2008: Parental Leave in the Civil Service A Dhuine Uasail,1. I am directed by the Minister for Finance to refer to the Parental Leave Act 1998 (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act) and to say that the arrangements applying to civil servants in relation to parental leave are, in general, as specified in that Act.
| 05 April 2005 Circular 10/2005: Public Service Pension Reform: Introduction of cost neutral early retirement |
| 26 May 2008 Foreign Travel and Subsistence rates |
| 13 May 2009 Q & A Incentivised Career Break Scheme for Civil Servants |
| 09 March 2009 Circular 7 of 2009 Travel and Subsistence Rates |
| 25 January 2010 Foreign Subsistence Rates January 2010 |