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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Where has Simon Cowell gone?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it part of core pay?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: It was sent by e-mail last night.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: No.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Sorry, €286.43 in year one. What of year two?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: If there is someone starting-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: The rate of €286.42 is still below the minimum wage. I want to be fair.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: What of the FETAC and HETAC qualifications?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would appreciate that. I want to ask the representative bodies about the reorganisation of the Army. What is the general feeling among their membership in terms of Army morale? Where stands the body of men and women in the Army? How do they view the process?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would I be pushing Mr. Rooney to ask his overall view on my point to Mr. Howard on allowances versus core pay and the structure within the Army? How does his association regard core pay? There are discussions ongoing. Can he give me a sense of the association's view on the issue of pay being given in the form of allowances as distinct from core pay? Is it unique to the Army? Would he...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: We got an idea of the top ten allowances. Would many of those be pensionable? Is the military service allowance pensionable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: It was a question I put earlier about the pensionable allowances.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it that, numerically, the greater majority of the allowances are not pensionable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: When I was looking through the allowances I noted in the case some of the allowances that no payments have been made even through they still exist. For instance, there is a ration allowance for cadets introduced in 1937 and there was nothing paid on it last year. There was a uniform allowance for cadets which was introduced in 1939 and there was nothing paid on it. There was a search and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: On the latter one, Mr. Howard might tell us exactly what it is.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Howard does not have many discussions with PDFORRA on that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: What about if the wife goes AWOL?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Apologies. I note there is an allowance for women as well that is not the subject of discussion. I think it is prohibited. It is one of the 11 allowances to go. I am making a general point. I very much take on board Deputy McDonald's point. I was about to conclude by saying, "women and men".

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: By natural evolution in terms of change, some of them will become obsolete.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: The public sees a figure of 65. I have looked back through the allowances, including the years they were introduced, and it strikes me that they have done a disservice to people working in the Army. There is a perception that there is a myriad of allowances when in fact the military service allowance applies to virtually everyone in the Army. It has been there since 1979, over 30 years,...