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Public Accounts Committee: Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances (1 Nov 2012)

John Deasy: The Commissioner approves the payment, after the Departments of Justice and Finance go through it. They make the recommendation. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances (1 Nov 2012)

John Deasy: A dog handler then gets €53.40 per week. Is that the allowance?

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances (1 Nov 2012)

John Deasy: Mr. Stone mentioned a radio technician allowance. How did that allowance become pensionable?

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances (1 Nov 2012)

John Deasy: In examining this I am not going to say that a particular allowance should or should not exist or is undeserved. However, I take it from the last paragraph of the Commissioner's statement that he believes many of these allowances should be subsumed into pay and that the system is probably not the best system, but that it evolved over time and should probably have been done a little...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances (1 Nov 2012)

John Deasy: The comment that got my attention was in Mr. Redmond's opening statement and was echoed by Mr. Stone and the Commissioner. Mr. Redmond said that when we talk about public sector allowances, the message is often delivered through the media in very general terms. I agree and take it this means in some cases, such as policing or teaching, the critical and unique circumstances are lost. I met...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances (1 Nov 2012)

John Deasy: Surely the Garda has already.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: There is nothing the Secretary General can do about that. The monster has been created, although it probably is not the most efficient way of going about things. I wish to ask one final question if the Chairman will permit me. It concerns the closure of Garda stations. Within the past year, between 30 and 40 rural Garda stations have been closed. I understand the Garda Commissioner is...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: If the Chairman will allow it. I will not ask the Secretary General to get into areas of policy.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: Fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: When a station is shut down, obviously the Office of Public Works owns the building.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: It would then be a question of handing it over to the community.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: I thank Mr. Purcell for his response, but I have one tiny question. At a time when we are closing banks and post offices and abolishing town councils, particularly in rural areas, the closure of Garda stations is significant for communities that have lost a great deal in the past year. The Department needs to present this carefully as more effective and better policing and reassure the...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: Representatives from the Department of Education and Skills have come before us. When one goes through the different Departments, one can see that Department gets more allowances than any other. The allowances come to about €600 million and in some cases, they are for particular VECs. It seems that people would sometimes contact the trade unions and then the Departments. They would...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: Is it the same for the Irish Prison Service?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: It may be a stupid question, but when were most of the allowances in the Irish Prison Service and the Department born? Is there an even spread over the past 30 or 40 years or has there been an acceleration of allowances into the system over the past ten years?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: I will go back to the word "relativities". Has the Department ever had an experience in which unions picked out an allowance that was conceded or adopted by other Departments and argued that it should be applied in this Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: What is done by the Irish Prison Service is unique, but nurses and plenty of other people throughout the public sector do plenty of overtime and work on Sundays, Christmas Day, etc. Are unions piggy-backing on a particular allowance and then negotiating or brokering a deal? Has Mr. Donnellan ever experienced that?

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: I am just interested in the evolution of the system of allowances in some of these Departments. I do not know this, but if I went to a different jurisdiction, I doubt I would find the plethora of allowances that exist in the Department and the Irish Prison Service. We have evolved a system that would probably not be built in the same way if we had to do it all over again. In the case of...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: There is a ripple effect.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)

John Deasy: That is what I am getting at.