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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Mr. Purcell, therefore, attributes this difference to the rostering nature of these roles.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That will be an interesting issue to examine when we deal with other Votes to establish whether there is a similar trend with rostering. We deal with the Garda Vote next week and rostering plays a prominent role in its activities. It will be interesting if I see a similar trend emerging.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: These are three payments, which are all different, but they are called allowances. This has been at the heart of the difficulty in understanding this issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Mr. Purcell has and I thank him again for all the material supplied to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: One allowance provides that officers are paid, even if the hours are not worked. Will Mr. Purcell explain that one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: There are 64 allowances available in the Irish Prison Service. In the Defence Forces there are 63. One view the Department of Defence put to us was that the Defence Forces was in its own mini-world in that it had its own surgeons, engineers and so forth, meaning it had a high number of allowances to cover this. There are more people in the Irish Prison Service in receipt of more allowances...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Most of the additional hours are non-pensionable. This goes back to the reform to deal with the cost of overtime we discussed. Would Mr. Purcell be able to produce a table that stripped out the additional hours in order that we could see the lay-down of additional pensionable allowances?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The witnesses are all very welcome and I thank them for attending the committee. I thank them also for the amount of work they have prepared and the information that is available for this session. I will begin with two points. All of the business cases for the allowances were shared with us. The business cases I have received so far from the Department of Justice and Equality are of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Will the Chairman confirm that we are sitting next Thursday also?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: There are only the two of us here but would members prefer to have the meeting on a Thursday morning rather than an afternoon?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Does Mr. Pykett have additional information on this point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank Mr. Pykett for making this point. A point on which we should deliberate is whether the existence of some of these allowances runs opposite to the spirit the Croke Park agreement is trying to develop, as Mr. Pykett said. I am on the board of management of my local school. My children are in a primary school and I am also involved with secondary schools in my constituency. We have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: It goes back to the point about the long tail, which is that allowances are specific, low in cash value and claimed by a small number of people. This is the point on which we must move the debate forward. We must recognise different forces drive the bulk of allowances but these forces are different again to the forces driving the long tail.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: It would really help us get a grip on the big picture if Mr. Ó Foghlú could update those two tables in the way we discussed. From the big picture, I want to go to micro issues and go back to a theme explored by Deputy Harris. He lightly touched on the table entitled Department of Education, details of allowances paid in the university sector, which Mr. Burke also raised. I will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I am referring to row 47 of that table - Mr. Ó Foghlú might be on the wrong document. This is the Excel spreadsheet he sent to us. It is the submission to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It relates to the university sector. Row 47 relates to tutor payments to people working in universities. A tutor role is pretty frequent within our third-level establishments....
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Let me see if I can get another example. Out of all the rows on the sheet, I had to pick that particular one. I will tread more carefully.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Let me try again. Is the head of department allowance going?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: It is on row 30 in the same document.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I assume that analysis would apply to many of the allowances shown. Why do we not just put them on to the professorial scale?