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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) David Cullinane: Did Deloitte provide a report?
- 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) David Cullinane: There is no need to be uncomfortable because this was announced with great fanfare. No one disagrees with the concept and logic of shared services offices and streamlining and professionalising services. We were told a €50 million savings figure would be achieved and I am trying to understand how much has been saved up to now. Ms Murphy-Fagan says it is €21 million and I am...
- 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) David Cullinane: Ms Murphy-Fagan is quoted in a newspaper report from December 2015 as saying that savings in the Civil Service alone come to €34 million a year.
- 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) David Cullinane: Why is that different? Earlier, I asked for the saving and it was €21 million. Where does the €34 million come from?
- 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) David Cullinane: As such, the €34 million has not been achieved yet. It is an estimate.
- 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) David Cullinane: Was there a Deloitte report that underpinned some of those figures or did this come from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform alone?
- 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) David Cullinane: I understand that but what we had in 2012 was a statement from the then Accounting Officer that there would be a €50 million saving. In December 2015, Ms Murphy-Fagan said there would be a €34 million a year saving. It is now €21 million albeit there is still more work to do and finance has yet to be transferred. I understand that. Obviously, however, we have a job to...
- 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) David Cullinane: Were all of those people seconded from different services in Department or did the office have to recruit?
- 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) David Cullinane: As such, we have more civil servants.
- 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) David Cullinane: I would have imagined that if we were looking at saving money and streamlining services, we would have fewer staff not more. What I see is that we have set up a new unit and have more staff and more costs. I am trying to establish how we have saved money in the circumstances. I assume from what Ms Murphy-Fagan is saying that there may have been people in the line Departments who were...
- 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) David Cullinane: However, there are more civil servants in the system. That is the point. Ms Murphy-Fagan had to take on more staff to work in her office. Those who were doing the work previously may be doing something else now, but there are still more civil servants. In that scenario, how are we achieving a saving?
- 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) David Cullinane: I have here a Deloitte report which is an examination of shared services in the Irish public service and internationally. This report cites where money could be saved and how much, which is why I asked whether there was a Deloitte report. Who commissioned the report? Was it the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- 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) David Cullinane: Did it host a conference on shared services around that time or shortly afterwards?
- 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) David Cullinane: Did Ms Murphy-Fagan personally speak at a Deloitte conference or event on shared services?
- 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) David Cullinane: Was there a Deloitte conference or event on shared services at any time?
- 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) David Cullinane: Did Ms Murphy-Fagan speak at any event organised by Deloitte?
- 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) David Cullinane: Who hosted the event?
- 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) David Cullinane: I ask Ms Murphy-Fagan to come back to us. I draw her attention to a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General's office in Britain and one from the Home Office because they have gone down this road. In fact, in the article from December 2015 which I referred to earlier, Ms Murphy-Fagan said Ireland was behind the curve on shared services. What did Ms Murphy-Fagan mean by "behind the...
- 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) David Cullinane: How exactly were we behind the curve?
- 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) David Cullinane: Ms Murphy-Fagan used the terminology in her own opening statement on the modernisation of corporate administration and professionalism. I do not have a difficulty with the use of the word "corporate" but it suggests something that is not normally used in the world of public services. I am looking then at what happened in Britain where the services were put into a shared service office to...