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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Do we have to go through the Bill section by section? I have a lot of queries.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: I am happy to agree to the amendment on the basis of the commitments given by the Minister but I am going to come back to this on Report Stage because I fear we are putting a big reporting requirement on people who genuinely may not have the backup to support that. I know they have to do this already for their own local authority but now they are being required to provide a lot more...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: I am happy to support the amendment but I think this has been landed on us. The Bill was introduced in January 2016 when our minds may have been elsewhere. There is probably a lot more work to be done in terms of informing members. As we go through it, I have many queries about section 7 and I now have queries about declarable interests. It places a whole new sheaf of reporting...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: We are on section 2.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Section 4(3) excludes members of the Judiciary from the provisions of the Bill entirely.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Excuse my ignorance but is there legislation in place in regard to members of the Judiciary?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Where are we at?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: On subsection (3), the Master of the High Court is defined as a "Category B" public official, yet the Judiciary is excluded. The Master of the High Court is a member of the Judiciary. Is there not a contradiction there?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: I ask the Minister to walk us through section 7 in detail and to outline the differences that the introduction of section 7 will make as opposed to what the reporting requirements are at the moment. I am concerned about the vagueness of the language in section 7(2). I want the Minister to also look at section 7(6) and subsection (11) and how it reflects subsection (6). This is actually the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: In 90% of cases, members of local authorities have full-time jobs. Those members will have to declare their salary and their terms and conditions of employment as part of section 7(2)(a) or-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Will members of local authorities, who in most cases will have other employment, have to declare income from other employment under subsection (2)(a)?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: I apologise to the Chairman. I do not think anybody has properly engaged with this Bill. Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas are generally full time. However, this Bill asks that members of local authorities declare their salary levels. A teacher's salary level is usually available. If a member is working in private industry, must his or her salary be declared? If a member is...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Let us focus on section 7(2)(a) first. If a member of a local authority is working in a private company, does he or she have to declare his or her salary under this provision?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: That is not the case at the moment.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Deputy Burke is the member who has most recently been in this situation.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Is the income declared rather than being made publicly available?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: We will come to that next.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: I want to tease that out with the Minister in a few moments. In regard to one's salary from employment, the source of the income must be declared but not the amount.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Dara Calleary: Section 7(1)(a) mentions income. That would give the impression that one has to give the level of that income.