Pay and Other Circulars

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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

January 2008

02 January 2008
Circular 2/2008. Retention of civils ervants beyond the normal retiring age - maximum income limits allowable on hardship grounds.

Circular 2/2008. Retention of civils ervants beyond the normal retiring age - maximum income limits allowable on hardship grounds.

February 2008

26 February 2008
Circular 8/2008. Appointment on a secondment basis in the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces.Assistant Principal (Investigator) Standard

Appointment on a secondment basis in the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces . Assistant Principal (Investigator) Standard Scale

March 2008

May 2008

June 2008

27 June 2008
Circular 13/2008: Motor Travel Rates

Ref: E105/1/08 26th June 2008 Circular 13/2008: Motor Travel Rates

27 June 2008
Circular 14/2008: Subsistence Allowances

E105/3/2008 26 June 2008 Circular 14/2008: Subsistence Allowances

August 2008

29 August 2008
Circular 19/2008: Subsistence Allowances Abroad

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.

September 2008

26 September 2008
Adobe PDF format documentCircular 16 of 2008

November 2008

December 2008

11 December 2008
Circular 20/2008: Parental Leave in the Civil Service

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.