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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (17 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be compulsory for teachers and or principals of the current junior certificate curriculum to take part in up-skilling and teacher training for the new curriculum commencing in 2014; if he is considering creating a tender for teacher training colleges to provide up-skilling for teachers for the new junior certificate curriculum; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (17 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers will be incentivised financially or otherwise to seek up-skilling for the teaching of the new junior certificate curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45342/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Places (17 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, as part of his plan to merge teacher training colleges he is considering changing the number of teacher training places available in the State funded teacher training institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45343/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Numbers (17 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will direct the jobs facilitator at a location (details supplied) to provide details of the numbers of persons currently on the live register living in different districts of Dublin Central; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45284/12]

Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government and Minister of State are seeking to provide a framework within which we can move forward and do all we can to deal with individual cases while putting in place an overall plan to allow us to deal with this issue in its totality. I have visited houses that have been affected by this, both in and near my constituency. I have been in local authority public housing that was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the delegation. I have a series of questions I will go through one by one. The format we decided upon whereby the representatives of the employees sit alongside the employers shows that this will be a fruitful way of looking at the issue. If we only heard one voice or each voice at separate times, we would have missed the point. I very much hope we can replicate this when we go...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Do we have that one?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It is the on the next page. Could we go down to the middle, which relates to enlisted personnel? Could participants comment on the fact that for people from the lower to the middle end of the wage scale, allowances occupy a far larger percentage of their total income than they do in respect of the income of people higher up the scale. For example, between private and sergeant, the figure...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I am asking this because the detail is where all of this lies. It is very easy to make observations at top line level, as I have done, but it is when one gets into the real detail of this that one begins to understand the picture. Mr. Rooney said it is because many of the allowances are related to operational work and because those operations are concentrated at the mid- to lower end of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Does Mr. Howard have any observations in respect of a table like this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I compliment the Department for providing a table like this with such detail and very much hope that when all the corresponding Departments come before the committee, they can do the same. There are other parts of the public service where I want to understand this very point because the question of what allowances are for and who gets them goes to the core of the debate about them. A...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Can I drill into this with the example of the allowance relating to the Army Medical Corps? A senior surgeon in the Army Medical Corps is paid an allowance. This appears to make eminent sense given the environment within which some of the surgeons could be operating but why is that an allowance? I know Colonel O'Keeffe does not like the comparison with private and public sectors in this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I would make the same point about air traffic controllers, of which there are 19. For example, a watch supervisor, of which there are a few, get paid extra because that is an extra job.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The best example is the military service allowance, which is paid to people for their work over time based on the number of years for which they have done the work. Having considered the detail of it, this is not an allowance because somebody does a particular type of work well over a period of time and gets paid a little more for doing it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The X factor?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I strongly suggest we do not rename it the X factor. It could land us in a whole lot of other difficulties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To end on a different point, if we were to draw a graph with the value of the allowance and the number of people earning it, it would have a very long tail as it would slope off to a very low value of allowance earned by very few people. It is the length of the tail which is getting us into difficulties. I will pick out as an example the isolated outpost allowance claimed by 78 people,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It was to cover the cost of people providing meals for themselves.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Is this one of the 88?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Okay.