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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Are any of those payments specifically as a result of a figure determined by a body such as the Labour Relations Commission or were they all worked out internally? Are any of them a result of such an outcome?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: None of them is as a result of costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Where would they be reflected? Would they not be in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: It is in the appropriation accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Before concluding this session and proceeding to the next one, I forgot to record apologies from Deputies Alan Kelly, Marc MacSharry, Róisín Shortall, who may or may not be able to attend, and Peter Burke. I thank the witnesses from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for participating in the meeting and for the material they supplied. We will suspend the sitting to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We resume public session. We spoke in the first part of the meeting with representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to our consideration of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Special Report No. 91 on the management of severance payments in public sector bodies. The report notes that the Central Bank had more frequent recourse to termination agreements...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Whatever the Deputy wants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Connolly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Before we conclude, I wish to put one other issue to Mr. Quinn. I refer to retention payments, which are almost the reverse of severance payments. This matter is not specifically dealt with in the report. Remarkably, the Central Bank has a system in place for what it calls retention of staff in strategically critical roles, so it is the opposite. Instead of having a settlement when...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Are the figures mentioned by me the total amount? I think I mentioned five people. There might have eight or nine included in the scheme but I think payments were made to five people. Is that the full extent of the figures or are there more?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: The witnesses might send us a detailed note on the 29 people. I do not need employees' names but I would like to know the amounts and the timing regarding when they were paid. Have witnesses any idea of the total amount paid or payable under the scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: That is a lot of money. The bank is paying €500,000 to keep staff in a public service organisation. Did the people involved have to break their contracts and get new contracts? Were they deemed to be new employees or was it a mechanism of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: They were deemed to be new employees. Did they get a P60 and commence again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Will the witnesses send us a detailed note with information on that? It was referred to briefly here and that is where I picked it up. I have no problem forwarding a copy of the correspondence, with which they are familiar, and I will arrange with the clerk for its circulation for the benefit of other members. I thought other members had received it, but obviously it was only sent to me. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We are now in public session and are moving on to our normal, routine items. Before we do that, however, I want to make people aware of the discussions we had in private on our work programme and specifically on our examination of the special report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on Project Eagle, the sale by NAMA of its Northern Ireland loan book. I wish to confirm that we will be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We have no dates yet for any subsequent meetings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: No. Only once-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Frank Daly will be coming in first but I expect that before we complete our work, Mr. Daly will be back with us for a final session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Minister because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Yes, on the day he appears before the committee. I expect that the Minister would only attend once.