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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Were there any increases in terms of allowances paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It was not a simple-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Yes, okay. So the overtime bill-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Overtime effectively does not exist any more.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: When there is such a large figure for overtime, it points to two possibilities. One is the structure in place is not effective in terms of delivering the best value for money with the people available and so an arrangement is made to introduce the additional hours allowance for the additional hours staff would need to work. Did the Department consider bringing in new staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Given that such an enormous amount of money is being spent on overtime, which is paid at a higher rate than normal time, would the Department not consider hiring more people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In 2005, someone must have come to the table requesting additional staff because we were spending far too much of the budget on overtime to fill these gaps. It would have been argued that it would have been cheaper to hire staff than continuing to pay more than 10% of the salary budget just to cover the additional hours. Somebody must have suggested it would have been cheaper to get more...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Might it mean that the people working in the prison system did not want any more staff coming in? When Mr. Purcell talks about unilaterally imposing-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Was there resistance from those working in the prison system to bringing in new staff because it would have meant a reduction in overtime pay for them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank everyone for coming in today and for the detailed information. I will pick up on that point made by Deputy Donohoe. In terms of the business cases that we have received from Departments, those of the Departments of Justice and Equality and Social Protection are excellent compared with the rest. They contain a great deal of detail and one can really get into it and understand the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: The Minister has prioritised 88 allowances for existing beneficiaries that he wants to examine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Is there a separate list to that? Was Mr. Purcell asked to draw up his own list for a further round?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: From the 17, is Mr. Purcell drawing up another list of an amount of allowances that would be looked at through these arrangements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Has Mr. Purcell a number yet? We heard yesterday from the Department of Education and Skills that there were 80 allowances on its list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: That is not only prisons; it is across justice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Is the figure of 17 of the 88 for justice or for prisons?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: If an existing teacher agrees to do 37 hours of that kind of extra work in the year, will he or she get this additional payment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Are we looking at re-examining that allowance for existing beneficiaries?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In terms of teachers' salaries and their increase over time, and it is important we pay teachers enough because we want good people in the profession, was it not seen as coming under the salary? Is it not accepted under the salary at that point? The Department could have said that it was expanding the contract and not taking the grace and favour approach, that these were part of core...