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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: We are not comparing like with like. I understand that. That is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Would Mr. Donnellan say the bulk of the difference in pay is in the area of allowances?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I would like to ask about the rent allowance. The figure is €4,017, but not for new entrants. Will Mr. Donnellan explain the origins of that and how it developed over the years? When was the decision made not to give the allowance to new entrants into the Irish Prison Service?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Going through this material is quite interesting. The one word that pops up every now and then is "relativities". Is that one of the allowances that has been borrowed from other services?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Is it typical throughout the public service that these obscure allowances, and there are many different allowances, would be pensionable? Many of the allowances in the various Departments throughout the public service are not pensionable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I want to stay on this point. Mr. Ó Foghlú said the vast majority of them are pensionable if the person stays in that position, and if it is foreseeable that someone would stay in it. I do not believe that in the case of many of these allowances that are pensionable one could foresee that somebody would stay in that position, for example, the warden of Trinity Hall allowance, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I have some specific questions. Going back to historical origins, an allowance listed is the allowance payable to teachers of apprentices in Dún Laoghaire and County Cork Vocational Education Committees in the post primary area. Can Mr. Ó Foghlú give me an idea how that allowance was created?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: It was what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I come back to the question as to whether it was typical that these allowances are pensionable throughout the public service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Mr. Ó Foghlú said the vast majority of these allowances are pensionable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Why is it that in some Departments many of the allowances are not pensionable but in the Department of Education and Skills they would be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Again, to put it in a historical context, how does this list arise? What is the process? Is it senior officials dealing with the unions in many cases? What is the typical process with regard to the origin of these allowances? Is it done by ministerial order or legislation? How have these arisen since the foundation of the State? Was it someone within the Department dealing with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I understand Mr. Burke's point. I disagree. It is a recipe for disaster. In terms of any deviation from his core purpose with regard to work there is an avenue that is acted upon by a union, in some cases by a particular VEC, to start negotiations with the Department to seek an additional payment or allowance. That is how it appears to me. I understand Mr. Burke's point but I disagree...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I will start with the general and then move to the specific. We got this document last week. It is a list of all the allowances and in all the Departments. On going through it, it becomes immediately obvious that the Department of Education and Skills is the winner. It is No. 1 in terms of the number of allowances, followed by the Department of Justice and Equality. It is noticeable that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: The Department has the highest level of payment of allowances of any Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I am dealing with the culture in the Department that allowed so many allowances to be born. I am interested in the historical origins of those allowances.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: Go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: I am not interested in that. I am talking about the 300 or 400 allowances. The historic-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
John Deasy: No. A person, who is not knowledgeable about the processes in the Department of Education and Skills as to how these allowances were born, casting a cold eye on the different allowances introduced would come to a conclusion very quickly that, historically speaking, the Department of Education was a soft touch when dealing with the unions, one of which is probably the biggest union in the...