Results 901-920 of 15,555 for speaker:Eoghan Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Would one person have been put in charge of that project to lead it, compile all the information and task people with getting the relevant information around it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Was the deadline set in February or was it before February of this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Was that the deadline?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Was the information we have today presented to the Department at the same time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay. The information was submitted on 14 February. Deputy Donohoe spoke about the fact that the situation appeared to be different with health in terms of the sessional or on-call allowances. An agreement was made with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that such allowances would not be included. Did that happen before the deadline in February?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay. Why make that agreement? Why would one decide to treat the allowances differently? We all accept that the payment of such allowances would for the most part be considered core pay and would be treated differently anyway at the outcome of the review of allowances. According to the statement, the Department of Health consolidated pay scales classify sessional payments and on-call...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It is interesting not so much from the viewpoint of the Department of Health but that other Departments did not take a similar approach when compiling information for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. They did not try to make such an arrangement themselves and say that they would treat some allowances separately.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: We got the information from other Departments when they came before the committee and it was helpful to see them and to compare how they stacked up in terms of core pay and the percentage paid in allowances. When one can add allowances to core pay one gets a better understanding of what the allowance was in terms of what the person in receipt of it was getting elsewhere in terms of pay. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. Brazel. Is the work still ongoing for the voluntary sector? Has that continued since February?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Were they not tasked to do that by the February deadline?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: So when the HSE made a recommendation on not continuing an allowance for new entrants, if that was accepted, is the idea that it would apply to those getting the allowance in the voluntary sector as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: When do we go to the voluntary sector to say we want the details that are currently being compiled?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Was that at the end of last year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Why has it taken them so long to come back with the information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Do they do it themselves? When the HSE goes to a voluntary hospital and asks for information on staff pay and allowances in various categories do those involved go off and do it themselves? Each one does it by itself; it is not a question of the Department having to do it. The voluntary sector could be told that it has six weeks to compile the information. The Department has the same...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: When we look at the tables in terms of the spreadsheets that were supplied to us, does the reference to the number of current recipients include the voluntary sector?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It would have been good to have the information also in the table so that we could understand the number of people being paid an allowance from the public purse. Mr. O’Brien provided figures earlier on those employed in the HSE but is there a further 50% of staff working in the voluntary sector being paid out of the public purse? Do 65,000 people work in the voluntary sector?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: We do not have the information for the approximately 40,000 people who work in the voluntary sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Line one in the table is island inducement allowance the number of current recipients of which is ten.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: If we are trying to identify the savings that will be made from abolishing an allowance I cannot go to the estimated annual cost for 2011 for the HSE and take that figure as the estimated saving if we are not continuing it for new or existing beneficiaries because the total number if not in the table.