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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Does Mr. Donnellan believe the system of paying allowances in lieu of overtime is better?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I thank Mr. Donnellan. I want to ask Mr. Purcell a couple of questions about specific allowances that caught my eye when I was going through the various lists. It is indicated in one of the columns that the Gaeltacht allowance is variable. Approximately how much is paid to each of the 341 recipients of the allowance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Fair enough. Does Mr. Purcell have any idea what the amount in question is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I would like to ask about the employee and pay numbers that have not been reduced. Can Mr. Purcell give us an idea of the overall staff figure? Is it the same as it was in 2010 and 2011?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I am asking about the figures for pay, allowances, overtime, attendance, employers' PRSI and everything else. I am curious that there does not seem to be a difference between the figures for 2011 and 2010. I would have assumed that there would have been a decrease.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: We will come back to them if Mr. Purcell can find them. Officials from the Department of Education and Skills appeared before the committee yesterday. My interest in this area relates to the origins of allowances and how they are deemed to be pensionable. When representatives of the Garda Síochána are in attendance next week, I will ask them how the radio allowance paid to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Representatives from the Department of Education and Skills have come before us. When one goes through the different Departments, one can see that Department gets more allowances than any other. The allowances come to about €600 million and in some cases, they are for particular VECs. It seems that people would sometimes contact the trade unions and then the Departments. They would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Is it the same for the Irish Prison Service?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: It may be a stupid question, but when were most of the allowances in the Irish Prison Service and the Department born? Is there an even spread over the past 30 or 40 years or has there been an acceleration of allowances into the system over the past ten years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I will go back to the word "relativities". Has the Department ever had an experience in which unions picked out an allowance that was conceded or adopted by other Departments and argued that it should be applied in this Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: What is done by the Irish Prison Service is unique, but nurses and plenty of other people throughout the public sector do plenty of overtime and work on Sundays, Christmas Day, etc. Are unions piggy-backing on a particular allowance and then negotiating or brokering a deal? Has Mr. Donnellan ever experienced that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I am just interested in the evolution of the system of allowances in some of these Departments. I do not know this, but if I went to a different jurisdiction, I doubt I would find the plethora of allowances that exist in the Department and the Irish Prison Service. We have evolved a system that would probably not be built in the same way if we had to do it all over again. In the case of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: There is a ripple effect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: That is what I am getting at.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: These were specific allowances fashioned for the unique nature of particular Departments, but there is another category.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: There is nothing the Secretary General can do about that. The monster has been created, although it probably is not the most efficient way of going about things. I wish to ask one final question if the Chairman will permit me. It concerns the closure of Garda stations. Within the past year, between 30 and 40 rural Garda stations have been closed. I understand the Garda Commissioner is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: If the Chairman will allow it. I will not ask the Secretary General to get into areas of policy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: When a station is shut down, obviously the Office of Public Works owns the building.