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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Right. The Minister chose one without taking any advice. He did that independently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: How often has this happened before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Is that the current Garda Commissioner?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Fraser has mentioned all those and that is fine. As briefly as he can, what is his role in this process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: In compiling all that advice, do we have an actuary in the Department who would provide Mr. Fraser with an actuarial valuation of an appointment such as Mr. Watt's over and above an outside candidate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I asked Mr. Fraser if he had an actuary to provide him with advice for him to advise the Minister and Taoiseach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Very good. It was, therefore, based on Mr. Fraser's own inclination, opinion or experience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I asked Mr. Fraser if this happened before. Was he involved in the appointment of all the other candidates, with whom this has happened before, to have garnered that experience?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: This has only happened in certain instances, however. How many of the other instances was Mr. Fraser involved in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Fraser's only recommendation to the Taoiseach and the Minister, therefore, was the remuneration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: To come back to the basis of Mr. Fraser's recommendation, public moneys provide the salary for all public service and Civil Service appointments. I will ask again. What actuarial figures were put together to apply a differentiation on the basis of value for money between 23 candidates to state we could have somebody internally at a particular cost or externally at a particular cost? I very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Just so that Mr. Fraser does not get confused, an existing civil servant is on a pension provided by the Exchequer and an outside candidate does not necessarily acquire the same level of pension. Am I correct on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: There could be hundreds of thousands of euro in the difference between what Mr. Watt would achieve over an external candidate. Is this correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Fraser was advising on this basis. This is public money. We are here to ascertain how much. The increase is €81,000 per annum but it equates to hundreds of thousands in pensionable benefits over and above an external candidate because he is an existing civil servant. If we look at the 40 years' service rule, it turns into hundreds of thousands of euro. Is this correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I am coming back in because I do not want to take up everyone's time. The question I asked is whether a monetary differential was calculated on the basis of providing an internal or external candidate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Fraser, will you listen to the question, please, to avoid taking up everybody else's time? Was there a calculation done actuarially to establish whether we spent hundreds of thousands of euro of taxpayers' money in the long run by appointing an internal candidate? Did Mr. Fraser know when he was giving advice what the cost would be of providing Mr. Watt with the job over an external...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: It is "Yes" or "No". Did Mr. Fraser know how much the difference was?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Fraser-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: -----did you know monetarily what the cost to the Exchequer would be of appointing an internal versus an external candidate? Did you know how much it would cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Okay. I will ask it a different way. What was the difference in monetary terms? How much would we have saved by appointing an external candidate? Perhaps it would have cost us more. What was the difference? How much?