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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Is it a good achievement given the significant increase in prisoner numbers, with overtime gone and bearing in mind that staff numbers have not increased?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Regarding the additional allowances, does it ever happen that someone is asked to work beyond the 360 hours in the band?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: How is it balanced for any one individual?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: If 360 hours per year amounts to 90 hours per quarter, let us say someone ends up working 112 rather than 90 hours per quarter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I refer to the court escort figure, which 58 members of staff receive. It amounts to approximately €2,000 gross per annum, which is not a lot of money. Why are so few staff involved in court escorts? I had assumed more were involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps Mr. Donnellan can explain that point, which not everyone understands.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: How many members of staff are in that unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Does it supplement the section?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Do people receive an extra allowance if they are in Portlaoise and must head to Dublin for the day and do not know how long it will take?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Are some of the 145 staff members based in each prison?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Concluding on a lighter point, the service has a number of dogs for searching in prisons. Is there a special arrangement for dog handlers? Are the dogs brought home?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I am sure only certain people would want to do that kind of work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: It seems modest enough. Who minds the dogs? Do they remain in the prison overnight?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: How many dogs does the service have? I said I would finish on a lighter note. It is not the end of the world.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Are they for different types of searches and different types of substances?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Showing their teeth.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Yesterday, the committee met teachers and representatives of the Department of Education and Skills. Teachers receive an allowance for yard duty supervision but the allowance is pensionable. It is additional work, almost akin to overtime, and amounts to 33 hours per year. The additional hours for the Irish Prison Service staff are very close to core pay but it is not pensionable. It is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: The new recruits we are discussing are on a reduced rate in terms of the annual hours premium rate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: That is exactly what I am asking about. We are talking about allowances. This is a clear case in which a reduction in pay rates will translate into a reduction in what some call an allowance, although I would describe it as core pay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Irish Prison Service is unusual in that allowances are specifically related to the hourly rate. Most other allowances we have discussed are fixed amounts and do not reduce if the hourly rate reduces. There will be a natural reduction in the allowances payable when the service starts to recruits again. I have a figure for the starting point as €22,124. Is that correct?