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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned the annualised hours situation there and I understand that people could sign up to work three different bands, up to 360 hours. I guess that the entire prison service opted for 360. Did they?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: I understand. For clarity for people watching and for the record, under the annualised hours system, if one signs up for 360 hours, one gets paid for 360 hours. If one happens to be in Arbour Hill Prison, for argument's sake, and 360 hours were not available but 220 were available, one would work for the 220 but be paid for 360. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: The Comptroller and Auditor General referred to them as write-off hours. The average is 15% around the country, but are there prisons where it is substantially higher than that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: What is the level of write-off in other jurisdictions in the prison service? What is the average?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: There is obviously a lack of flexibility if there is capacity at one prison to transfer to one of the busier centres. What has been done to try to address that? Have there been negotiations with the unions? Has it been a topic for discussion?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: The Comptroller and Auditor General suggested that the Irish Prison Service is going to undertake a review. Is there a timeframe for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: When one looks at the deal, there is not a worker in the country who would not like them to be representing them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: The ratio is about 1:1.2 officers to prisoners, and I think internationally it is about 1:2.7. I may be corrected about that, but I think it is there or thereabouts. Is there a forum where prison services get together and discuss things? Is there a formal association?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: How are they operating with fewer people? How can we aspire to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: The authorities are happy with a ratio of 1.2:1. We have it right and some other countries have a different system which would not suit us. Is that the position?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: In terms of sick leave, it was hoped the annualised hours, AH, system would reduce sick leave. The Comptroller and Auditor General indicated that while there was a reduction post-2005, there had been a very steep rise between 2001 and 2005. Why did sick leave increase in 2015?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: On claims, what are non-compensation-related legal costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Marc MacSharry: I thank Mr. Donnellan.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (7 Feb 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the board of management of a primary school (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for a general purpose room in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5723/17]
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)
Marc MacSharry: At this stage, the stones on the road know that we have many problems in our health service but what is needed is action. We are beyond the periodic outrage that we show in the House following an RTÉ programme or whatever local case some Deputy raises and we need to focus on tangible solutions. As far as I am concerned, our health service is focused exclusively on budgets by...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Relocation (16 Feb 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the number of personnel at his Department in Longford will be released in line with their transfer approval for vacancies currently being filled by temporary clerical officers in Carrick-on-Shannon. [7787/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Relocation (16 Feb 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the first 25 personnel listed in chronological order approved for transfer from various locations within his Department have been ignored in favour of transferring the person who is listed at No. 26, who was transferred to Carrick-on-Shannon in August 2016. [7788/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Relocation (16 Feb 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason, with 20 temporary clerical officers currently filling vacancies in his Department in Carrick-on-Shannon, there are a significant number in the top 25 in order of priority on the approved transfer list who are being ignored with continuing refusal to release these personnel to fill existing vacancies in Carrick-on-Shannon. [7789/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Relocation (16 Feb 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the impact the proposed centralisation of most of his Department's information section and the need to reassign those personnel who worked in that section, will have in terms of delay or refusal of transfers of those personnel seeking movement to or within his Department's infrastructure, on Sligo, Letterkenny, Carrick-on-Shannon and Longford....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Marc MacSharry: On the same issue, many of us have attended various candle-lit vigils. There will be a briefing in the House tomorrow and I gather there will be a national protest outside the complex on Wednesday next. It would be wonderful if, as a collective, we could take a decision next week to make that protest a celebration. As we continue to procrastinate, sick children are getting sicker and...