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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Okay. Why make that agreement? Why would one decide to treat the allowances differently? We all accept that the payment of such allowances would for the most part be considered core pay and would be treated differently anyway at the outcome of the review of allowances. According to the statement, the Department of Health consolidated pay scales classify sessional payments and on-call...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: It is interesting not so much from the viewpoint of the Department of Health but that other Departments did not take a similar approach when compiling information for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. They did not try to make such an arrangement themselves and say that they would treat some allowances separately.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: We got the information from other Departments when they came before the committee and it was helpful to see them and to compare how they stacked up in terms of core pay and the percentage paid in allowances. When one can add allowances to core pay one gets a better understanding of what the allowance was in terms of what the person in receipt of it was getting elsewhere in terms of pay. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. Brazel. Is the work still ongoing for the voluntary sector? Has that continued since February?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Were they not tasked to do that by the February deadline?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: So when the HSE made a recommendation on not continuing an allowance for new entrants, if that was accepted, is the idea that it would apply to those getting the allowance in the voluntary sector as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: When do we go to the voluntary sector to say we want the details that are currently being compiled?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Was that at the end of last year?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Why has it taken them so long to come back with the information?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Do they do it themselves? When the HSE goes to a voluntary hospital and asks for information on staff pay and allowances in various categories do those involved go off and do it themselves? Each one does it by itself; it is not a question of the Department having to do it. The voluntary sector could be told that it has six weeks to compile the information. The Department has the same...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: When we look at the tables in terms of the spreadsheets that were supplied to us, does the reference to the number of current recipients include the voluntary sector?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: It would have been good to have the information also in the table so that we could understand the number of people being paid an allowance from the public purse. Mr. O’Brien provided figures earlier on those employed in the HSE but is there a further 50% of staff working in the voluntary sector being paid out of the public purse? Do 65,000 people work in the voluntary sector?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: We do not have the information for the approximately 40,000 people who work in the voluntary sector.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the witnesses for coming here this afternoon. If I raise a matter that has already been covered they might let me know. I apologise for not being able to be here earlier but I followed the proceedings as best I could from the monitor in my office. A good deal has been dealt with but I want to return to a matter Deputy Donohoe raised relating to the process with which we are dealing...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Would one person have been put in charge of that project to lead it, compile all the information and task people with getting the relevant information around it?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: Was the deadline set in February or was it before February of this year?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Investment Incentive Scheme (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered an enterprise investment scheme as is operated in the UK whereby an investor in an early-stage enterprise can claim back up to 50% of their investment through tax reliefs. [49339/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that Give Peace a Chance: An Educational Resource on Conflict and Peace Building for Post Primary Educators is sufficiently objective for use by teachers in teaching Citizenship Education, Religious Education, Geography, English and History. [49338/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (7 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all investment schemes currently operated by the State which involve some form of tax relief or similar, whereby persons investing money in small and medium sized enterprises may receive a portion of that investment back through the tax system; the maximum amount under each scheme which can be invested and the maximum rate of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Numbers (6 Nov 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Taoiseach the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering system. [49078/12]