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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: I do not have an issue with the individual. Good luck to him. My issue is that the Department has 83 people getting more than €10,000 a year in overtime. Surely, there is a possibility for the Department to create additional positions with the agreement of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Has that even been discussed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Is that not lifted now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: As such, will we see a major reduction in the 2014 outturn based on that development with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Sorry, I meant 2015.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: How soon does the Department expect to see that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: With the agreement of the Chairman, I ask Mr. Maher what the view of the Department of Public Expenditure is regarding the fact that 83 people in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine are getting more than €10,000 a year in overtime.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. Maher's Department have a plan to reduce it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: The report also states that €68,710 was paid to two retired civil servants in receipt of Civil Service pensions who were re-engaged on a fee basis. What is the story there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: What skills did these two have?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Did the Department advertise the gaps to be filled?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: How many of those TVIs are from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: How many vets in total are on the TVI panel?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Therefore, the 42 retired vets are pensioners from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: What is the total cost in respect of those 42 vets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. O'Driscoll know how soon after retiring the two individuals were back with the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Did they leave on a Friday and come back on the following Monday?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: The reason I ask this question of Mr. O'Driscoll is we recently had his counterpart from the HSE at the committee discussing a similar scenario where people who had left the service found themselves back, miraculously, a short time after leaving because they had a unique skills set. I asked at the time and I ask again now is a person with that skills set advertised for? Are these services...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Is the thrust of Mr. O' Driscoll's contribution that the moratorium has been very beneficial to certain retired civil servants?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. O'Driscoll. agree that the moratorium has been very lucrative for a retired civil servant with a particular skills set-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: The figure of €68,710 is not a small sum of money.