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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Yet Mr. McDonagh contradicts it here months later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: It is a matter of public record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I am not here to answer your questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I asked Mr. McDonagh the question and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: -----I said, if the Chairman was listening, that I did not read the full transcript. I said that 30 seconds ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I asked Mr. McDonagh to tell me if I was wrong on this. I opened the conversation on this by saying that I had not read the full transcript and that I was just going to quote this from it. Mr. McDonagh said he disagreed with the transcript and that is fine. That was not said in open court but he is saying it here now. All I will say on that, and I will conclude on this point, is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the witnesses. Mr. Donnellan mentioned a new administration and support officer grade. What is the new grade's maximum salary?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I was concerned, as I had the impression that it was half the salary of a prison officer, which is approximately €62,000 at most. How many assaults have there been on prison officers in the past year? A ballpark figure will do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Is the number in the dozens or hundreds per annum?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Add them all up. I just want the ballpark figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: What about assaults on prison officers? Do they number in the dozens or hundreds?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I do not need the exact figure. Reference was made to a prison officer's pay versus that of a pilot. I do not know from where the figures for the latter came. That a prison officer can be assaulted any day should be taken into account. As public servants, prison staff must statutorily pay superannuation and the pension levy whereas the same is not necessarily true of the pilot. I wanted...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: The new rates have not affected people yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Will there be a knock-on effect? New recruits will enter on much reduced salaries. I assume the additional hours are factored into their hourly rates, in which case there will be a commensurate reduction in their additional hours payment. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: The new recruits we are discussing are on a reduced rate in terms of the annual hours premium rate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: That is exactly what I am asking about. We are talking about allowances. This is a clear case in which a reduction in pay rates will translate into a reduction in what some call an allowance, although I would describe it as core pay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Irish Prison Service is unusual in that allowances are specifically related to the hourly rate. Most other allowances we have discussed are fixed amounts and do not reduce if the hourly rate reduces. There will be a natural reduction in the allowances payable when the service starts to recruits again. I have a figure for the starting point as €22,124. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: What figure does a person start at? When we asked the question about the Army, there was shock at how low pay rates were for those entering the Army. I estimate that if the €22,124 figure for the recruit prison officer grade is correct, the starting point is €425 per week which is a fraction above social welfare rates and the minimum wage. I want to disabuse some people of...