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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: I know we differed over the use of this analogy in our last session. However, typically such people in the private sector would go on to a different pay scale for doing a different role.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: We do not have that here for legitimate reasons at times. In the absence of that, therefore, we have an allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It is useful to examine it in our meetings.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I might be able to help with some of that. We should do it because it would be worth doing. The next allowances I grouped were allowances which are expenses by another name. These include footwear allowance, office accommodation, uniform allowance and uniform cleaning allowance. Those are really expenses rather than allowances. The first one must be vouched. The office accommodation is...

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Perhaps I should take that out of my list of four, as it is somewhat different.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Payment of the uniform cleaning allowance requires a receipt.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Of this group, perhaps only three of them are fully vouched - I might have missed another one. However, these are expenses rather than an allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course, and in the case of three of them it is specified that it is vouched. The other group is miscellaneous and one gets into all kinds of different things. The largest of them is the keyholder allowance, which comes to €520,809 a year and the franking machine allowance which comes to €319,321 a year. These are the big-ticket items and ones that are different. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in a tabular form the value earned to the Exchequer of each of the tax relief schemes currently in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46465/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a community employment scheme status has been reduced in respect of a (details attached) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46059/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the progress being made on the second study undertaken by his Department in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency on identifying best practice for the use of hydraulic fracturing techniques; when such a study will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason why a person (details supplied) has not received their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46267/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a community employment scheme status has been reduced in respect of a (details attached) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46059/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the progress being made on the second study undertaken by his Department in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency on identifying best practice for the use of hydraulic fracturing techniques; when such a study will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason why a person (details supplied) has not received their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46267/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a community employment scheme status has been reduced in respect of a (details attached) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46059/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the progress being made on the second study undertaken by his Department in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency on identifying best practice for the use of hydraulic fracturing techniques; when such a study will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason why a person (details supplied) has not received their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46267/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason why a person (details supplied) has not received their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46267/12]

Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government and Minister of State are seeking to provide a framework within which we can move forward and do all we can to deal with individual cases while putting in place an overall plan to allow us to deal with this issue in its totality. I have visited houses that have been affected by this, both in and near my constituency. I have been in local authority public housing that was...