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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the correspondence or meetings he has had with the Russian Ambassador in relation to naval exercises conducted by the Russian military off of the Irish coast. [5242/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the heads of state with whom he has raised the British amnesty for crimes by British service members during the Troubles; the response of each respective head of state; and the further actions he plans to take to garner international support against the amnesty. [5243/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised with any British government official the issue of British collusion with loyalist paramilitaries and barriers to investigating that collusion imposed by British security authorities; and if so, the officials he raised it with. [5244/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the call by the President of France to include abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. [5245/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of funding provided by Ireland in 2020 and 2021 to the United Nations broken down by UN body and committee, to international organisations by body or committee and in foreign aid by country in tabular form. [5246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Tusla accommodation review will be published. [5227/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of each application for volunteer work permits by persons (details supplied); and the estimated timeframe in each case for when they can expect to receive a decision on the appeal application. [5451/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of general practitioner referrals to rapid access clinics in each quarter of each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5453/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá brón orm mar bhí orm seasamh amach as an gcruinniú ar feadh cúpla nóiméad. Gabhaim buíochas leis an mbeirt Airí as teacht anseo chun labhairt linn. To begin with I will speak to a report and I commend my colleagues on the EU committee on the good and detailed report that was considered and developed a number of weeks ago. It is startling...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: You said-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: May I make come in?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Are wages not benchmarked in the public sector?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Are wages at different grades benchmarked against each other in the public sector?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the post of Secretary General in the Department of Health one of those four tiers?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: My point is that salaries operate in comparison to each other. They relate to each other. They are not independent of each other. In answer to the question I asked on this particular salary the Minister said this particular salary is fully independent and isolated from all other salaries and will not be used as a benchmark or a tool by anybody to look for salary increase in future. This...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Yet.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government sees itself as a government of fiscal prudence. It regularly tells people to lower their expectations with regard to pay rises. Whole sectors of the public service, such as the Defence Forces, have been waiting for pay rises for a long period and have been refused them. Yet we have this significant largesse at this critical level of the Civil Service. Is the wage...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The country is quite shocked by what happened in the mental health services for children in Kerry, as detailed in the report just released. If other cases of HSE failings of children were to occur, that could potentially have a downward effect on the Secretary General's salary of nearly €300,000.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat a Aire. The Minister said he could never go far enough but he did go far enough for Robert Watt and his wage. It is very interesting and quite startling that he said this will not form a benchmark or a reference point for other salaries in the public service. What he is saying is that the figure is not part of any process. He is saying it is independent of any system...