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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: As part of that process, was Mr. O'Brien asked to draw up an additional list of allowances that could be abolished as part of the review? We heard from the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Justice and Equality that they had a number of allowances among the 88 but that they had been asked to draw up a list of other allowances that could be abolished?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Which allowance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Are those allowances part of the 88?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I am asking whether the executive was asked to draw up a list of allowances in addition to the 88.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Has the HSE done that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It appears there are Labour Court rulings behind a number of the allowances and terms and conditions of employment, thereby creating special cases in the health sector. That is interesting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I have a final question on the existing allowances we want to remove. To remove them, we must enter a buy-out process. Is this what would happen? Is it a question of paying 1.5 times the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Let us try to anticipate what may come down the line. There could be a process of buying out the allowances at 1.5 times the cost. One would make a saving in the longer term, of course, but there would be an initial upfront payment to abolish the allowances. Is that the approach?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: By way of contingency planning, has the HSE costed anything yet? Has the HSE costed the worst-case scenario of buying out allowances at a cost 1.5 times their value? I am trying to figure out what the maximum cost might be and what it could be if there were no compensation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I appreciate that the purpose of buying out the allowances would be to have long-term savings. Of course, this would require expenditure up front. The buy-out in the case of laboratories was quite expensive. Of course, it is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I am not doubting the value but trying to determine whether we can estimate costs that may be incurred.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In order to do that at the laboratory, did the HSE have to secure money in advance? Does the process just involve payment as part of normal current expenditure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I appreciate that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. O'Brien.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Line one in the table is island inducement allowance the number of current recipients of which is ten.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: If we are trying to identify the savings that will be made from abolishing an allowance I cannot go to the estimated annual cost for 2011 for the HSE and take that figure as the estimated saving if we are not continuing it for new or existing beneficiaries because the total number if not in the table.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It is not possible to cost the savings that would come from, say, abolishing an allowance. According to this table I do not have the full estimated annual cost for that allowance because it does not include a significant number of people in the voluntary sector who may be receiving the allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It is just that it has been some time, and the HSE had to compile it. That was very difficult work for it to do but it did it in the timeframe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I am sorry. That is clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I take that point.