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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: The point I am trying to make is that there are a great many allowances. Is it possible to consolidate them to make the process less complex and easier to understand? My question is whether a person who grits roads gets two or three allowance and whether it would be better to consolidate the allowances.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: The staff concerned may have to work unsocial hours and may be called out to do a job in a short timeframe. If they cannot complete the job, roads may freeze.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: It would be no harm if the allowances could be consolidated for those carrying out the work. This would make the system easier to understand and take the complexity out of it. Do local authorities have autonomy? Does the money come from the Department or the local authority budget?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: Who pays the ice cast allowance?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: The NRA sets the rate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: I have no further questions. Thank you, Ms Tallon.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: I welcome Ms Tallon and thank her for her opening statement. How many people work in Met Éireann?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: Is that an increase or a reduction on the figure five years ago?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: Shift allowance payments were €1.8 million last year. What was the figure at its height when there were more than 190 staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: The Secretary General states the Department has returned to the local authorities on the business cases made for certain allowances. As what point is that process now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: I will refer to some specific allowances that apply to staff in local authorities. I know that prior to this meeting, the eating-on-site allowance has been discussed. I understand the reason the allowance is paid is that workers are away from their base at lunchtime. Is this not more of a reflection on the local authorities that they could not provide the necessary services in the areas in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012) Paul Connaughton: I do not have an issue with the allowance per se, but concerns have been expressed about some of the on-site services workers would want to have available but which would not be up to the standard required by them. I wonder if the focus is on doing something about this because this would get over the problem.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (25 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their disadvantaged area payment; when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46955/12]
- Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: While Ireland continues to spend more than it takes in, the task ahead for the Government is very difficult as we seek, through a combination of increased taxation and cuts in expenditure, to balance the nation's budget. This is a necessity to get the country back on track. Considerable progress has been achieved to date in steadying the ship of State. There are indications of modest...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Do the individuals who can avail of it change on a yearly basis?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: The change to the pay grade for new entrants to teaching was introduced in September.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: On that basis, is it possible for someone who is not yet fully qualified, but who may be on the old pay scale while substituting for a teacher, to continue on that pay scale when newly qualified?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: If a trainee in college had been called in for a week, he or she would have been paid according to the old pay scale. When qualified, will he or she be paid at the same starting rate as everyone else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: After being qualified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: There was an industrial dispute in 2001 or 2002 pertaining to some of the allowances that were introduced. How many allowances were sought at the time? How many were agreed to and how many were turned down?