Charlie McConalogue’s former driver awarded €30k after 'egregious treatment' when let go on Christmas Day

WRC.

Stephen Bourke

A tribunal has awarded €30,000 to agriculture minister 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.

The driver, Trevor Shaw, had been put on notice of redundancy after the government moved in 2022 to make driving most ministerial cars a Garda job on security grounds – reversing a decision taken to civilianise the position as an austerity measure a decade earlier, the tribunal heard.