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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: I want to be given an estimate. Everyone gives an estimate, which is subject to verification, after the end of the year. I believe Ms Murphy-Fagan has said she has already sent information to the Departments. She is reasonably confident about what has been produced. I am sure she had a health warning on her statement and that it was not absolute. Could she just outline what her office...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Even though we have all these shared services, one has to dig back through the 50 or 60 Votes to find out the overpayments outstanding at the end of the year. Is that not what Ms Murphy-Fagan is saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Has anyone got the notes? If not, I might ask the liaison officer to tot up those figures for us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: For the end of 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Do the witnesses see where I am coming from? We have only a bit of the picture.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: The NSSO is an agent.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: The €4.6 million overpayment that has been reported is the only one reported to the Comptroller and Auditor General's office. The broad figure is €7.5 million across the public service, including the HSE, education and local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: No, and Ms Murphy-Fagan probably wants to keep it that way for a while. Let the HSE look after its own affairs for the time being anyway. She said that the office deals with auto-recruitment directly if it is less than five working days. Does the office have to go through local HR to put that in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Once the office gets the figure, it goes through.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: I am going at this from the point of view of the 124,000 users, not HR. Does the NSSO communicate with the users directly rather than with HR where the communication could get stuck in the system if somebody is on holidays and has not opened his or her email?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Does the office get calls directly from users saying, "My pay looks a little different"? Perhaps there has been a salary change such as an increment that did they know about or the increment was late and they are wondering how the arrears were calculated.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: That is good. The NSSO is a large employer with 700 employees and that number will reach 1,000 when the finance management function transfers to it. What quality control system is in place relating to output by staff? Is there a rule of thumb that one person should be able to process X hundred per week? How does Ms Lyons know who is efficient or inefficient in the organisation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: That is step one in doing something about a query but at least-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: I acknowledge the issue of suppressed posts does not come under Ms Murphy-Fagan's remit and she may be unable to answer this question but she may be able to provide general information. If a Department or an office transfers the function to the NSSO and 30 of its staff were involved in payroll and HR services, how do we know some of those posts have not been suppressed? Some staff, for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Staff go on full pay for three months sick leave and I referred to a pensionable rate of pay earlier. Public servants sometimes go on low payments and remain in the system. Ms Murphy-Fagan said the office does not come across this much. Am I using the wrong terminology?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Is it a different figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Would it depend on a person's years of service? Is the pensionable rate of pay calculation related to the years of service?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Can Ms Murphy-Fagan send the committee an information note because it is complex? People often ask us what rate they will be on at the end of their six months sick leave? I do not seek exact figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: With regard to security, Ms Murphy-Fagan said it would not be a good idea for everything to be in one building in case something happened the building. If something happened in one of the big offices in Dublin or Killarney where many of the payments are processed, that would create an enormous strain. Is the information available to other offices, for example, if one office goes down?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: I would have thought users should be able to check their payslips on a smartphone. Can that be done?