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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: How can this matter be progressed? Mr. Watt spoke of approaching this from a value for money point of view. Would it also be possible to address it by way of a different definition of the working week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The working week for many people is no longer Monday to Friday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: How far advanced is the roster reform agenda?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: In respect, for example, of nurses.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Are overtime payments included in that list?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have some questions for Mr. Watt. As part of the documentation he supplied on 12 October, a long table outlined all the different allowances within the Civil Service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes. I wish to discuss the components of that. We had a discussion with Mr. Watt which then became a theme of the meeting we had with representatives of the Department of Defence last week. Once one gets under the skin of what an allowance is, there are a variety of things under that phrase. I want to tease out what all these things mean. The table lists 27 different allowances. Of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The retention element of the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Is it due to go as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: They will not get it.
- 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.