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Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome everyone to the meeting. Before we commence, I remind members and witnesses to switch off their mobile telephones as they cause interference with the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I advise the witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give to this committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. John Clinton, General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association, and ask him to introduce his officials.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I also welcome the officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I now invite Mr. Purcell to make his opening statement. Is it in order for the committee to publish it?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Purcell. I call on Mr. Clinton, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, to make his opening statement. Is it in order to publish his statement?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. Purcell and Mr. Clinton. It is welcome that both management and the unions are present and I commend the union representatives on taking up our invitation. A number of features have come to light in all the deliberations with the various groups that have appeared before us. The first is the number of allowances and the second is how they are categorised. For example, is the...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to the numbers in the grade in receipt of more than one allowance. I added the numbers given for each grade and the total is 3,708, with people on eight allowances. It appears that the majority of staff are on an average of eight allowances. When the 2005 negotiations took place, many of them were part of core pay. A number of the allowances with published business cases,...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: The operational on-call allowance is for principal and assistant principal officers.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Therein lies the confusion because there are so many allowances. Why did the negotiations in 2005 not consider reclassifying many of the allowances as core pay?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: I congratulate Mr. Purcell on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: The basic import, which has come up with every group that has come before the committee, is that the public looking in see this massive array of allowances and a significant proportion of them are core pay. It is about presentation. I would like to hear Mr. Clinton's input on this as well. Do they both believe there is a need to review how allowances are classified because it has led to a...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: When one looks down through the average overall percentage of gross pay, there are nurse officers for whom, in one case, nearly 50% of their income is allowances. Clearly, that must be core pay. Will Mr. Purcell carry out a review of the allowances, in terms of outdated descriptions and titles, in consultation with the unions?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is there a need for a review to consolidate the sheer number of allowances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Chairman indicated that I was next to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you, Chairman. In the limited time available to me, I will focus on some specific points. Mr. Dukes referred in his opening statement to the final cost of the wind-down operation. What does he anticipate will be the residual value of Anglo Irish Bank's balance sheet when it is wound up? The context to my question is, of course, the promissory note. When does Mr. Dukes expect that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Dukes anticipate that will happen in 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can Mr. Dukes be more specific?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will he give us an estimated time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Dukes has indicated his expectation that it will be done in advance of 2020. I am simply asking for a more specific estimate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: What was the anticipated residual value at the time the promissory note was put in place? I am trying to ascertain whether that estimate has changed in the interim.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Kieran O'Donnell: The delegates were engaged in the design of the promissory note back in 2010. I am asking about the residual value that was factored into the note at that time.