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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: Are many of them pensionable?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: I see that. How many of these allowances are identified on individual employees' payslips? Mr. Barry O'Brien referred to the eight HSE payroll systems. I was going to mention the situation relating to PPARS, which was at the different stages of integration in different parts of the health sector. That integration process was halted at a particular point when a controversy arose. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: It is operating in my area, the midlands.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: Without revisiting that - it is probably relevant to obtaining accurate information-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: The reason PPARS has probably arisen is because it is a method of recording information. It is stated in the documentation provided that there are 600 grades of staff across the HSE. One of the controversies which originally arose in respect of PPARS is that in the areas of the country where it was introduced, there were of the order of 2,700 pay rate variations at local level. People in...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: How are all of the variations to which I refer factored in to the HSE's definition? Are they regarded as pay as opposed to being considered allowances? The latter appears to be the case.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: When members of the public discuss allowances, they think of travel allowances relating to individuals who use their cars in the course of their work. They believe the latter are paid rates of subsistence because they are working away from their base or whatever. Even though they would not necessarily be the subject of tax, such rates of subsistence must be listed on their payslips. How...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Brien probably does not have the information on this to hand but I ask him to supply the total amount paid in respect of travel and subsistence allowances.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: Not to me personally. That would give us a sense of the figures. The executive represents probably a third of State employees.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: I preface my remarks by saying I am arguing about this but want the information to get an understanding of the figures.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: Are different rates paid in respect of subsistence allowance for different grades of staff? In other words, if a paramedic is away from base for X number of hours or if a doctor has sessional hours in more than one hospital and is away from his or her base, would they both get the same rate? Are there different rates of subsistence allowances for meals depending on one's grade?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. O'Brien to forward us a note on that. I wish to ask about a related issue. We talked about travel undertaken by staff and a travel allowance is a visible allowance members of the public can identify as being paid to a person for travel undertaken in the course of his or her work. Home care assistants, community nurses, social workers and others are on the road every hour of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: No. I would not have thought so. Are there many ambulance managers in the country?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: A few dozen?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Brien might explain the nature of that as I genuinely do not understand it. Obviously an ambulance would be called if an incident occurred but to what type of incident would an ambulance manager come out? What is the role or function of an ambulance manager or to what types of cases would he or she come out? Surely an ambulance manager would only come out in the event of major...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Blue light vehicles.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Garda would be able to identify them arriving at the scene.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: I would like a note to be forwarded to the committee on how many of these vehicles the executive has. We ask all Departments about travel and subsistence allowances.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether reductions in rent supplement has led to an increase in homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49901/12]