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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Of the 27 allowances, 12 of them relate to someone doing a bigger job. I shall read them out. First is an allowance for supervisory duties for a service officer. I presume that refers to supervising somebody.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The next one is the same role but at a different level - I assume.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The next one is the director allowance, which is payable to a principal officer filling a director post.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The next one is quite different. It is for a cleaner on supervisory duties - a cleaner who is paid for supervising the cleaners.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The last eight allowances are for private secretary roles of which four are to be eliminated over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Of the 27 allowances, 12 relate to people getting paid an allowance doing a different kind of role that is bigger. I believe the total expenditure on the sheet was €4.4 million. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I have calculated that €2 million to €2.2 million of that is paid for people doing a different job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Why is that an allowance? Why do they not go on to a different pay scale?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: It is worthwhile noting that the list I have read includes everybody from the private secretary to the Taoiseach to a cleaner supervising other cleaners. There is a gigantic array.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I know we differed over the use of this analogy in our last session. However, typically such people in the private sector would go on to a different pay scale for doing a different role.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: We do not have that here for legitimate reasons at times. In the absence of that, therefore, we have an allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: It is useful to examine it in our meetings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I might be able to help with some of that. We should do it because it would be worth doing. The next allowances I grouped were allowances which are expenses by another name. These include footwear allowance, office accommodation, uniform allowance and uniform cleaning allowance. Those are really expenses rather than allowances. The first one must be vouched. The office accommodation is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Perhaps I should take that out of my list of four, as it is somewhat different.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Payment of the uniform cleaning allowance requires a receipt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Of this group, perhaps only three of them are fully vouched - I might have missed another one. However, these are expenses rather than an allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Of course, and in the case of three of them it is specified that it is vouched. The other group is miscellaneous and one gets into all kinds of different things. The largest of them is the keyholder allowance, which comes to €520,809 a year and the franking machine allowance which comes to €319,321 a year. These are the big-ticket items and ones that are different. They are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: How would that work? Is it the case that the additional payment would cease to be an allowance and would then become part of the salary?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That is the overall direction being taken.