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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: As it has evolved, the allowance system within the public sector strikes me as cumbersome. I expect it is difficult to administer. The representative bodies came in the 1990s. The military service allowance has been there since 1979 which is over 30 years ago. That is clearly core pay. Why was that not incorporated into core pay? That is the bones of ten or 12 years prior to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: I am not doing that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Howard is saying something there that we have not said.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: Clearly, looking at allowances, the Army is relatively unique amongst Departments where there is no overtime. The military service allowance makes up nearly €53 million and concerns 8,700 of the Army staff. Effectively, therefore, the bulk of the staff qualify for it. The figure was put out as including that when it is clearly core pay. I am seeking to understand why that was not...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: I am making the point in the context of the private or officer working in the Army. The perception might be that there is a myriad of allowances when it strikes me that a lot of them are core pay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: That is purely the basis from which I am coming.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: There are two other issues, one of which concerns the HETAC qualifications. The starting pay for a private soldier would strike me as being very low at €220 per week.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: Sorry, €286.43 in year one. What of year two?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: If there is someone starting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: The rate of €286.42 is still below the minimum wage. I want to be fair.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: What of the FETAC and HETAC qualifications?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: I would appreciate that. I want to ask the representative bodies about the reorganisation of the Army. What is the general feeling among their membership in terms of Army morale? Where stands the body of men and women in the Army? How do they view the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: Would I be pushing Mr. Rooney to ask his overall view on my point to Mr. Howard on allowances versus core pay and the structure within the Army? How does his association regard core pay? There are discussions ongoing. Can he give me a sense of the association's view on the issue of pay being given in the form of allowances as distinct from core pay? Is it unique to the Army? Would he...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: We got an idea of the top ten allowances. Would many of those be pensionable? Is the military service allowance pensionable?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: It was a question I put earlier about the pensionable allowances.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: Is it that, numerically, the greater majority of the allowances are not pensionable?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: When I was looking through the allowances I noted in the case some of the allowances that no payments have been made even through they still exist. For instance, there is a ration allowance for cadets introduced in 1937 and there was nothing paid on it last year. There was a uniform allowance for cadets which was introduced in 1939 and there was nothing paid on it. There was a search and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: On the latter one, Mr. Howard might tell us exactly what it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Howard does not have many discussions with PDFORRA on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Kieran O'Donnell: What about if the wife goes AWOL?