Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath has been asked if the Government now believes that the salary increase of more than â¬80,000 for the role of Department of Health secretary general was âunnecessaryâ and âunwarrantedâ given that it is being waived by Robert Watt. The same question has been posed to secretary general to the Government Martin Fraser by the Oireachtas Committee on Finance. It comes as it continues its joint investigation with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) into pay levels for senior public servants in the wake of the controversy over the increase in salary for the Department of Health job to â¬292,000.