Results 31,401-31,420 of 33,049 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: What about the franking machine allowance, which is €500,000 per annum? I had a look at the business case for this allowance, which states that given the huge increase in the use of e-mail in the past ten years, with a related drop in ordinary mail and so on, it is probable that the volume of franking required has diminished significantly and will continue to do so. These are the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: According to the table, the first payment of this allowance was on 3 January 1994, which is quite a while ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I am trying to put a structure on all of this. There is so much detail involved one might never establish anything. There appears to be a few different parcels into which all of these allowances are being categorised, one of which is additional duties, which at a time in the history of the State were huge duties in respect of which people were paid extra. These have been overtaken by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: On the office accommodation allowance, the first payment of this allowance was pre-independence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Further on in the document there is what is termed a common additional hours allowance table, the total cost of which in 2011 was €7.446 million. Is this an additional payment structure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances (23 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: These are Civil Service payments rather that payments to, say, gardaí, firemen and so on.
- 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.