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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: No; I had not planned to ask the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is an obvious question. Due to challenges posed by the legacy payroll systems, of which there are eight - Mr. Barry O'Brien will appreciate this is about analysing information and the questions asked by Deputy McDonald in respect of absenteeism, the figures for which are not to hand - I thought a report would be available showing the total numbers and the cost. Obviously it is difficult...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: While much of this is prior to Mr. O'Brien's time, with a budget of the order of almost €14 billion per annum and an organisation with eight payroll systems, the HSE has to concentrate time on putting in place a payroll system which will amalgamate all the payrolls. It is clear there is not enough of PPARS. If memory serves me correctly, PPARS cost in the region of €120...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can Mr. Barry O'Brien tell me the timeframe for putting this in place?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I shall return to a point raised by Deputy Mary Lou McDonald on the clinical director's allowance. Mr. Tony O'Brien referred to the fact that he was also in the management service of a modern HSE. I raised the question previously and I have put the representatives on notice that I would probably raise the issue. Within the consultants area, €74 million in private fee income remains...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the witnesses. I have a few questions from my brief reading of the submissions. Reference was made to labour activation measures but how would congress, IBEC and the SCSI envisage they would work in practice? The biggest single issue we face is unemployment. We did not discuss that at length but I am sure everyone would agree it is the biggest single issue. If people come off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is a risk-based issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Too much of it was property based.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is there any matter on next week's agenda for discussion in public session?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: When can we expect to receive it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister and his colleagues. One of the points the Minister is raising at the ECOFIN meeting is the revised capital requirement rules. I ask him to outline his view on that matter and what impact he expects the revisions to have on the capitalisation of our banking system. The Minister referred to the fact that 40% of our national debt relates to the banking system. In that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I raised the issue in the context of the Minister pointing out that 40% of our national debt relates to a banking debt the sovereign took over and which this Government inherited from the previous Administration. The Minister spoke of the knock-on effect of that on the budgetary system. I was just inquiring about the negative impact the bank debt is having on our budgetary position. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: As the Minister mentioned the promissory note, what is the interest figure for 2013? I believe there was an interest holiday-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: We might see Deputy Spring as Secretary General in the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I suppose my time-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Moran dissatisfied with the mortgage-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Moran missed my point, which is a straightforward one. Our understanding was that the banks were more than adequately recapitalised in terms of various rounds of recapitalisation. There appears to be a divergence between the two main banks. Bank of Ireland maintains that its €3.5 billion is all new lending while AIB says approximately 17% of the €3.5 billion - €600...