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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Who was the Minister for Health then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Then that was being used.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: The Minister for Finance at that time, 2010-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Mr. O'Brien mentioned the Secretary General. Which Department's Secretary General was he referring to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Who wrote that memo?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: We will go through the process from there. Where did it go after that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: This is really the first correspondence from an official to the Minister advising him of all of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: In 2011, it went to the Labour Court.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: The Labour Court found in favour of the retired public servants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Ms Cronin reinforced what was said about this attitude of "over my dead body are they getting this increase". That was the feeling she got.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: She referred to "these people". Who are "these people"? Ms Cronin was referring to senior civil servants. Who in the senior ranks of the Civil Service has blocked this payment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: These were the people within these sections in Government who were presenting the obstacles to the payment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: I just want to find out what happened. We are now up to 2010. It then drifted into more recent times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: The witnesses have raised this again with Secretaries General and Ministers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: The response from the Secretaries General involved was not to reply at all. Which Department's Secretary General are we talking about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: We are talking about the person currently in that position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: The witnesses have been through all of that. They have been around the loop. The reason I have asked these questions is to have set out in simple terms that there is a case to be answered here. The Labour Court confirmed everything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: The political system, the Ministers, were poorly informed to say the least.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: They have got the payment, however.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: It is a little bit like 2010, when senior civil servants excluded themselves from a cut through the then Taoiseach and Minister for Finance. Now, having gone through the machinery of the State and correspondence, the witnesses find themselves in a situation where those who were in senior positions got paid while those in their own positions across the sector were not.