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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: It was recommended independently and with full knowledge of the organisation's financial position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Payroll costs in 2014 amounted to €123.9 million. How much were they in 2015?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Bus Éireann is directly attributing the loss to payroll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: As public representatives, we are operating in the dark. We understand that there is a grand plan to address this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport has said that he has not seen it. Has it been finalised and submitted to the Department and the NTA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Was it advisable to go over the heads of the unions? Mr. Hernan is now seeking a partnership with them to address the issue. They have indicated that they will work in partnership with Bus Éireann, but Mr. Hernan undermined that partnership by going over their heads and communicating directly with staff before communicating with them. Would it not have been better to communicate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The longer it goes on in terms of plans being leaked to the media before staff are informed does not assist the atmosphere either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: In terms of Bus Éireann's warning of insolvency, what interaction has it had with the NTA? Has the NTA engaged with it in light of the fact that the largest public bus transport company in the country could be insolvent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Given that it has a public service obligation, does Bus Éireann consider it is on a level playing pitch with regard to the commercial routes and Expressway routes? Other operators do not have that obligation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Going back to the target savings and the plans at the moment, what is the overall target for savings and what percentage of that target will come from staff costs versus insurance or other costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The witness said that Bus Éireann does do not have resources for a voluntary redundancy scheme. Mr. Hernan's predecessor retired very quickly before Christmas. What was his severance package?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Is it not difficult? The staff on the ground, drivers, mechanics and the clerical officers are Bus Éireann. They are the people with whom the public interacts and the management is asking them to take very severe cuts and then maybe give them a 2% rise in a few year's time if cash flow allows. In the interests of asking people to share that pain, should that information not be available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Mr. Hernan brings great experience in the private sector to the role. In his experience of restructuring companies, is it usual for the principal shareholder to distance himself or herself from the restructuring of a company that has been identified as being on the verge of insolvency?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the source of the extra funding to pay for the Labour Relations Commission's decision regarding the Garda associations and for the recent deal with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU; if he has had discussions with line Ministers regarding the potential impact of the revised allocation on their departmental budgets; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I ask the Minister to outline where he intends to find the €120 million announced last week regarding an extension of the terms of the Lansdowne Road agreement and the €25 million that is part of the Garda settlement that is being assigned to general expenditure.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I will read to the Minister a comment by the Fiscal Advisory Council:For 2017, the ... fiscal space under the rules has already been allocated in budget 2017 for tax cuts and expenditure increases. As a consequence, any new increases in expenditure, such as to fund higher public sector pay, imply lower spending in other areas unless offset by compensatory tax changes. Can the Minister give a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I will focus on the case because the Minister has left many unanswered questions about it. How can he say the Government is vigorously defending a case when it has withdrawn the appeal? I do not want him to comment on the two specific cases but I do want him to comment on the reports we are seeing across all the media today that this could cost up to €350 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Government has lost the case. Given the fact that it has withdrawn the appeal against the case, the notion of vigorously defending its case seems rather hollow. I appreciate the Minister cannot comment on the two specific cases, but what are the overall implications of this decision not to proceed with the appeal? What are those implications for the health budget in 2017, 2018 and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Expenditure Reviews (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's plan to undertake an expenditure review in 2017; the timelines involved; if the review will include a comprehensive review of departmental expenditure ceilings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3598/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Expenditure Reviews (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister announced on budget day that there would be an expenditure review in 2017. We are three months on from budget day and I want the Minister to outline the detail of that review, the timescale involved and what impact it will have on preparations for budget 2018.