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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: The pay bill for the Irish Prison Service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: That follows reductions in staff of approximately 300.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Overtime would have been quite significant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Part of that agreement introduced the new allowance for additional hours, night-time, Christmas Day, weekends and public holidays. Is that correct? When the annualised hours were agreed, the new allowance system was agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: That does not include the night-time allowance, Christmas Day allowance, the weekend allowance or the public holiday allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I am trying to figure out where the €30 million saving for overtime would be reflected.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I was here for Deputy Ross's questioning, but not for Deputy Deasy's.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: If I were to look at the books, would I see that this figure of €66 million in overtime in 2005-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Would I see any corresponding increase on the allowance payments side?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Some €33.5 million is the cost of the additional hours.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: The cost of overtime would have decreased by €30 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Were there any increases in terms of allowances paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It was not a simple-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Yes, okay. So the overtime bill-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Overtime effectively does not exist any more.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: When there is such a large figure for overtime, it points to two possibilities. One is the structure in place is not effective in terms of delivering the best value for money with the people available and so an arrangement is made to introduce the additional hours allowance for the additional hours staff would need to work. Did the Department consider bringing in new staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Given that such an enormous amount of money is being spent on overtime, which is paid at a higher rate than normal time, would the Department not consider hiring more people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In 2005, someone must have come to the table requesting additional staff because we were spending far too much of the budget on overtime to fill these gaps. It would have been argued that it would have been cheaper to hire staff than continuing to pay more than 10% of the salary budget just to cover the additional hours. Somebody must have suggested it would have been cheaper to get more...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Might it mean that the people working in the prison system did not want any more staff coming in? When Mr. Purcell talks about unilaterally imposing-----