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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the amount of child benefit paid to parents of twins, triplets and so on. [46653/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the recently vacated Harcourt Terrace Police Station, Dublin 2. [46652/12]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Will we will get an opportunity to look at the draft form before it goes out?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank all of the witnesses for coming before the committee and for the very detailed information they supplied, which has been very helpful. I will begin my questions to Mr. Ó Foghlú on something he said at the end of his statement. I am interested in what is meant by current beneficiaries of allowances. Recently the Minister made an announcement that 88 allowances for current...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Of the 88 allowances to be reviewed, 80 are in the education sector.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: This is with regard to the February deadline, whereby we hope to have a resolution by February next year.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Which are the priority areas with regard to allowances for current beneficiaries?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Will we discuss allowances today which have been prioritised by the Department for review?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: We will get into the details on them.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: In talking about those allowances, are we including current beneficiaries?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Would it be fair to say that some of the allowances initially identified as not being available to new entrants are now on the negotiating table in their application to current beneficiaries?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: The hope is to save €16 million from the allowances.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: That process has begun. The February date has been mentioned and we hope that some part of the process will have concluded with regard to the 88 allowances by then. Are we hoping to see something with the priority areas at least by February next year?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Must the Department consider new business cases? The business cases for many of the allowances initially submitted began with an indication that the allowance is considered core pay and under the Croke Park agreement it would not be discussed for current beneficiaries but rather for new entrants. Decisions were made in that respect. If it is not a new process, will the Department return...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: The Gaeltacht and island allowances were mentioned and they have been singled out. The Minister mentioned they were being examined. Is the Irish language allowance being considered?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: It is not being paid to new entrants but we are looking to see if existing beneficiaries will be able to continue with it. How much is that allowance worth?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: We have had some correspondence and appendices to the correspondence so I have a couple of general questions before dealing with specific allowances. In Appendix A there are examples of teachers and allowances they might receive. There is a basic salary and the total value of allowances is added for the gross salary. Tax is paid on the gross total. There has been some misinformation about...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: That is the value of the allowances. Those are being identified because they are paid to a subset and it is not a generic payment across a grade.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Appendix B details the number of allowances held by teachers. There are 460 primary teachers not getting an allowance. The number of teachers in receipt of one allowance at primary level is 17,048 and 15,446 at second level, with a total of 32,494. At the bottom of that table it states that in addition to the above, almost 95% of teachers receive the supervision and substitution payment....

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: When there is an indication that 17,048 primary teachers are in receipt of one allowance, the effect is that there are two allowances for 95% of them.