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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (3 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will instruct the National Council for Special Education to extend the schools' appeals process it intends to have in place for the 2012/2013 school year allocation process to parents. [32422/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (3 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the 2012/2013 resource teachers and special needs assistant posts allocations and the schools to which they have been allocated in the Dublin 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 areas. [32423/12]

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review senior management pay across the civil and public sector under the provision contained within Section 1.6 of the Croke Park Agreement in advance of the Implementation Body's Third Review of the Agreement. [32716/12]

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to revise pay caps implemented and overseen by his Department. [32717/12]

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: As two of my questions are being taken together, I hope the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will allow me some latitude in my exchanges with the Minister.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sorry the Minister did not deal with the questions separately. To deal with Question No. 2 first, I asked the Minister if he would review senior management pay across the Civil Service and the public service. His response was that doing so would require new legislation. Is he prepared to introduce that legislation?

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: To be clear, I am not referring to new or future entrants. I want the Minister to deal with the issue in the here and now. He has stated doing so would require new legislation. I understand why public servants, particularly low and middle income earners, cling to the Croke Park agreement simply because they believe that in its absence there would be a free-for-fall on their earnings....

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have said time out of number that as the State is insolvent, there will have to be emergency measures and that people need to shoulder the burden. The Minister has asked what is an excessive salary. A sum of €200,000 - the salary cap - is an excessive salary. I have repeatedly told the Minister that, in these times of financial emergency, pay should be capped at the level of...

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The salary of the special adviser to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, is above the cap at €127,000.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The special adviser to the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, earns €127,796. There are five special advisers to the Taoiseach whose chief of staff earns €168,000.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have said this before in the Dáil and I am saying it again.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The chief adviser to the Tánaiste earns €168,000, while his economic adviser earns €155,000. All of these salaries breach the cap the Minister designed and enunciated. He has to forgive me if my faith in his ability to enforce a cap has been weakened.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister should try it himself sometime.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Then the Minister went and broke them.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I asked two questions.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister referred to consultant doctors and stated that they would flee the system. He should look to the NHS in Britain in order to learn a few lessons in this regard. Consultants in that jurisdiction do not have the luxury of private practice in order to supplement their public incomes. This business of saying that if we do not pay the big bucks we will not get the right talent is...

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will provide the Minister with an instance in which he broke his own pay cap.

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Why was the pay cap breached to secure the services of a special adviser for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, particularly in view of the fact that this individual - whose expertise was apparently required - has since vacated the post? We were informed at the time that the big bucks were paid because of the commitment and skill of this individual and in view of the...

Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have been raising this matter with the Minister for over a year.

Public Sector Reform (4 Jul 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Because it has not been set up.