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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Speakers have indicated in the following sequence: Deputies Madigan, Connolly and Cassells. I remind members that officials from the Central Bank will appear separately for the second half of this report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Watt to repeat that as his comments are not being picked up owing to mobile telephone interference.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cassells.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Are any of these as a result of unfair dismissals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Some of these would have gone through an external process for unfair dismissals and this is the figure. Perhaps you would send us a note on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We understand. Many of them avoided all that and reduced the legal costs. However, you might tell us if any of these were as a result of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Are any of those payments specifically as a result of a figure determined by a body such as the Labour Relations Commission or were they all worked out internally? Are any of them a result of such an outcome?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: None of them is as a result of costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Where would they be reflected? Would they not be in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: It is in the appropriation accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Before concluding this session and proceeding to the next one, I forgot to record apologies from Deputies Alan Kelly, Marc MacSharry, Róisín Shortall, who may or may not be able to attend, and Peter Burke. I thank the witnesses from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for participating in the meeting and for the material they supplied. We will suspend the sitting to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We resume public session. We spoke in the first part of the meeting with representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to our consideration of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Special Report No. 91 on the management of severance payments in public sector bodies. The report notes that the Central Bank had more frequent recourse to termination agreements...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Whatever the Deputy wants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Connolly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Before we conclude, I wish to put one other issue to Mr. Quinn. I refer to retention payments, which are almost the reverse of severance payments. This matter is not specifically dealt with in the report. Remarkably, the Central Bank has a system in place for what it calls retention of staff in strategically critical roles, so it is the opposite. Instead of having a settlement when...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Are the figures mentioned by me the total amount? I think I mentioned five people. There might have eight or nine included in the scheme but I think payments were made to five people. Is that the full extent of the figures or are there more?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: The witnesses might send us a detailed note on the 29 people. I do not need employees' names but I would like to know the amounts and the timing regarding when they were paid. Have witnesses any idea of the total amount paid or payable under the scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: That is a lot of money. The bank is paying €500,000 to keep staff in a public service organisation. Did the people involved have to break their contracts and get new contracts? Were they deemed to be new employees or was it a mechanism of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: They were deemed to be new employees. Did they get a P60 and commence again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Will the witnesses send us a detailed note with information on that? It was referred to briefly here and that is where I picked it up. I have no problem forwarding a copy of the correspondence, with which they are familiar, and I will arrange with the clerk for its circulation for the benefit of other members. I thought other members had received it, but obviously it was only sent to me. ...