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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: When does the Department expect that the entire sum will be returned?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: Is the Department happy to take personal circumstances into account and extend repayment periods?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: Clearly, while the Department of Education and Skills funds salaries through the VEC, it appears as though it has no direct oversight of the payment of those salaries. Can the Secretary General explain to me the complexities in this regard? Are there difficulties in recovering overpayments made to VEC staff as opposed to staff in other second level sectors?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: I will now move on to the issue of Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI. As everyone is aware, SUSI was launched by the Minister for Education and Skills last year and was designed to centralise grant application processes for new entrants to third level and it is the intention to expand that to existing third level students next year. It would be fair to say that for many Members, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: I welcome the witnesses to this morning's meeting. First, I wish to deal with salary overpayments to teachers described by Mr. Ó Foghlú. As part of budget 2011 a reduction of 10% was applied to the pay of new entrants. I appreciate and understand the difficulties encountered by the Department. A teacher appointed in 2010 would be in receipt of a gross salary of just over...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: Could Mr. Ó Foghlú describe how the system works and how it compares with the systems operated by other Departments and agencies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: It is correct that the circular was only issued several months after the original decision to reduce pay at that level was agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: Yes, several months later. Why was there a delay?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: Did the Department not receive a circular of notification from the Department of Finance or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform immediately after the budget? The Department had adequate time to prepare. Why did it take several months to circulate the notification to those affected?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: Is that because many teachers who retired under previous retirement and redundancy schemes had reapplied to engage in work, in many cases in the schools from which they had retired?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: Was there not sharing of information in that respect between Departments and agencies? For example, if a teacher had worked in a VEC, did the Department did not have an adequate record of their income, their incremental pay scale or anything of that nature? Did the Department not have sufficient information?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Gerald Nash: The Comptroller and Auditor General’s report originally indicated that the overpayments amounted to €1.18 million. The current value of the overpayments appears to be €1.745 million. Is it the case that just over €500,000 has been recovered?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Issues (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give consideration to the inclusion of former residents of an institution (details supplied) in the redress scheme under the aegis of Mr. Justice Quirke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10245/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the Garda personnel resources allocated to provide policing and patrol car support in the Cooley Peninsula area, County Louth; the number of vehicles available to the Gardai in this area for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10311/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical students that are expected to graduate here this year; the number of intern places that will be available within the Health Service Executive for these graduates; the contingency plans that are in place to meet any potential shortage of intern places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10286/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive intends to upgrade and enhance the audiology unit in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; if the HSE intends to make resources available to enable all children who require bilateral cochlear implants to have the essential procedure carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9838/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Expenditure (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the total cost of the long term illness scheme for the years 2009 to 2012 inclusive; and the cost per patient availing of this scheme [10279/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Expenditure (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the administration costs of the long term illness scheme for the years 2009 to 2012 inclusive [10280/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Expenditure (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to abolishing the long term illness scheme and giving any patient with a defined long term illness a medical card, in view of the fact that patients on the long term illness scheme already have their medication paid for and will, under the Programme for Government be in receipt of general practitioner cards; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Review (26 Feb 2013)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the total cost of assessing persons for eligibility for medical cards for the years 2009 to 2012 inclusive [10282/13]