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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE figure, which is 110,000 public servants, is not captured here at all. The first thing we will do today is write to the HSE for the overpayments figure for 2016 and 2017 in respect of all HSE staff. I have no doubt that will bring up the figure. Members will understand that I decided to follow this up as a result.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, Deputy, it is the other way around. This is staff who have been overpaid salary and owe the Department money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: This is not money due to the staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. Generally, these are people who were on sick leave. It took a fortnight for the paperwork to come through and they were paid for two weeks they should not have been paid for or holidays that were taken without being properly notified and there was a catch-up. It is those type of issues. The Haddington Road agreement and those type of agreements are not connected with this at all....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. They might now have to recalculate the figures based on the higher pay rates.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: On the old figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is quite right. The figure could be higher.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: That list of agencies is in the chapter from last week-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----but the big areas not included, and we went through this, are the HSE, local authorities, the Department of Education and Skills, the Garda Síochána and the Army. They are the big areas, and the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The National Shared Services Office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are; we just got the 40 Votes, the appropriation accounts. None of the State agencies under every Department are included in this figure. This is strictly the departmental Votes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Organisations such as Horse Racing Ireland or Bord na gCon are not yet included in this figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: A special report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are overpayments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct that it is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We made it very clear last week that we knew that the HSE and teachers are not included in the figures provided. I forgot to mention that the local authorities are also not included. They took the view that there might be a risk to the State to have all 300,000 public servants paid through one centre. It is probably no harm not to have everything under the one. That is probably a strategic...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will include that as well. The point is that perhaps we should have started at the beginning of the previous meeting with the overall picture and then homed in, rather than homing in first and then realising the overall picture. We have more or less thrashed it out now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We could include it in the periodic report for the spring that we will issue probably-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can have a specific chapter on that.