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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...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to return to a theme touched on briefly by Deputy Harris, namely, the difference between an allowance and an expense. Perhaps that is something we should be refining and have in mind with the report. Deputy O'Donnell picked up on the point regarding the equitation school. I apologise as I left briefly. Approximately six months ago I had the privilege of visiting the equitation...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Another example is the entertainment allowance, which is listed. I have a selection of the business cases printed in this regard. There were seven claims in 2011. If this money is being used, I assume it is covering money spent on a particular purpose as opposed to providing a pecuniary benefit to the individual unit. The principal military appointments entertainment allowance is a good...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The broad point is the difference between an allowance and an expense.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The best example is the military service allowance, which is paid to people for their work over time based on the number of years for which they have done the work. Having considered the detail of it, this is not an allowance because somebody does a particular type of work well over a period of time and gets paid a little more for doing it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The X factor?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I strongly suggest we do not rename it the X factor. It could land us in a whole lot of other difficulties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To end on a different point, if we were to draw a graph with the value of the allowance and the number of people earning it, it would have a very long tail as it would slope off to a very low value of allowance earned by very few people. It is the length of the tail which is getting us into difficulties. I will pick out as an example the isolated outpost allowance claimed by 78 people,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It was to cover the cost of people providing meals for themselves.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Is this one of the 88?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Mr. Howard.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the delegation. I have a series of questions I will go through one by one. The format we decided upon whereby the representatives of the employees sit alongside the employers shows that this will be a fruitful way of looking at the issue. If we only heard one voice or each voice at separate times, we would have missed the point. I very much hope we can replicate this when we go...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Do we have that one?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It is the on the next page. Could we go down to the middle, which relates to enlisted personnel? Could participants comment on the fact that for people from the lower to the middle end of the wage scale, allowances occupy a far larger percentage of their total income than they do in respect of the income of people higher up the scale. For example, between private and sergeant, the figure...