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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the schedule for the river Shannon dredging works which were announced prior to Christmas 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3427/17]

National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: He wants it to be decentralised to Portlaoise.

National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Bill. Fianna Fáil will be supporting this Bill, which provides for the establishment of the national shared services office on a statutory basis. The office currently exists on an administrative basis within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Shared services is the provision of common corporate services to a number of organisations by an independent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I am representing Deputy Troy at this meeting. I welcome Mr. Hernan and Mr. Boland and agree with the latter on a review of the travel pass. My main focus will be on Bus Éireann. Mr. Hernan stated that the board had a fiduciary duty to act between now and the middle of March, but it also has a legal duty to the welfare of its staff. Let us not forget that. Surely the board had a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: That was a recommendation of the Labour Court.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: It was recommended independently and with full knowledge of the organisation's financial position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Payroll costs in 2014 amounted to €123.9 million. How much were they in 2015?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Bus Éireann is directly attributing the loss to payroll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: As public representatives, we are operating in the dark. We understand that there is a grand plan to address this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport has said that he has not seen it. Has it been finalised and submitted to the Department and the NTA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Was it advisable to go over the heads of the unions? Mr. Hernan is now seeking a partnership with them to address the issue. They have indicated that they will work in partnership with Bus Éireann, but Mr. Hernan undermined that partnership by going over their heads and communicating directly with staff before communicating with them. Would it not have been better to communicate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The longer it goes on in terms of plans being leaked to the media before staff are informed does not assist the atmosphere either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: In terms of Bus Éireann's warning of insolvency, what interaction has it had with the NTA? Has the NTA engaged with it in light of the fact that the largest public bus transport company in the country could be insolvent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Given that it has a public service obligation, does Bus Éireann consider it is on a level playing pitch with regard to the commercial routes and Expressway routes? Other operators do not have that obligation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Going back to the target savings and the plans at the moment, what is the overall target for savings and what percentage of that target will come from staff costs versus insurance or other costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The witness said that Bus Éireann does do not have resources for a voluntary redundancy scheme. Mr. Hernan's predecessor retired very quickly before Christmas. What was his severance package?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Is it not difficult? The staff on the ground, drivers, mechanics and the clerical officers are Bus Éireann. They are the people with whom the public interacts and the management is asking them to take very severe cuts and then maybe give them a 2% rise in a few year's time if cash flow allows. In the interests of asking people to share that pain, should that information not be available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Mr. Hernan brings great experience in the private sector to the role. In his experience of restructuring companies, is it usual for the principal shareholder to distance himself or herself from the restructuring of a company that has been identified as being on the verge of insolvency?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 214. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for carrying out essential repairs at a district hospital (details supplied) in County Mayo; if emergency works will be carried out in view of the results of inspections carried out in July 2016; the projected timeframe of such works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3354/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (24 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 92. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Secretaries General in his Department; the annual pay of each Secretary General in his Department at 1 January 2017; and the expected change in that pay as a consequence of the provisions of the Lansdowne Road agreement. [2915/17]