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

Shane Ross: It is the Department's baby, is it not?

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

Shane Ross: Judges' allowances seem to me to be rather a twilight area and somewhat obscure. Apparently, judges of the Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court get various allowances, such as €9,000 per year for working at home. Is that correct? It is pretty vague.

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

Shane Ross: It seems to me that some of them are pretty unjust or pretty difficult to explain. Did Mr. Purcell know that a judge gets €2,000 for a wig? I could do with one of those.

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

Shane Ross: They are happy to wear them.

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

Shane Ross: I apologise. I was probably being a bit frivolous about the wig allowance. However, I am seriously concerned about some of the allowances judges get, which people do not seem to know anything about. From the Chief Justice down to judges of the High Court, they get what is called an annual expense allowance of €9,000. Why do they get that?

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

Shane Ross: No. They are not the travel ones. I think they are to cover working at home and things like that.

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

Shane Ross: Do they get that automatically?

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

Shane Ross: Do they still get it if they do not do any work at home?

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

Shane Ross: How does Mr. Purcell know?

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

Shane Ross: Some of them would.

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

Shane Ross: They get €9,000 - which is presumably unvouched - for working at home, and they get all sorts of allowances for travel, which are almost indecipherable from what I can see. They get removal expenses. They get €127 a day for going to Cloverhill prison. Is that right?

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

Shane Ross: I know. I just wanted to raise it, so maybe we can get a note on that.

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

Shane Ross: I apologise, but may I finish? Judges of the Special Criminal Court get €145 per day for turning up from a rural area, whatever that means. It just seems to me that this is very unclear. Judges are getting a lot of extra pay. They are immensely well paid. We have already had a controversial referendum on judges' pay. Behind that pay there are many rather opaque allowances that we...

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

Shane Ross: I think the allowances are excessive and are not transparent enough. Can Mr. Purcell give us a note on them?

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

Shane Ross: I would like a note on what they get, what they are entitled to, and what they have actually drawn in recent years. Obviously, some of these are voluntary and they do not have to take these annual allowances. Could Mr. Purcell let us have a note on that as well?

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

Shane Ross: I may have been unfair to Mr. Purcell, but I just wanted to get this off my chest.

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

Shane Ross: No, but it is something I would like to pursue, so perhaps the Department could give us a note on it. Would that be all right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (1 Nov 2012)

Shane Ross: It is a pretty close run thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (1 Nov 2012)

Shane Ross: Mr. Boucher is very welcome. I declare an interest in that I am a small shareholder in Bank of Ireland. Is Mr. Boucher a member of the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (1 Nov 2012)

Shane Ross: How did the board choose the new governor?