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- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Can we be confident that the same error will not happen again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: An understatement does not make it correct either, however.
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: It is not the first time that figures were understated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: I welcome Mr. Fitzpatrick to the committee. I have a few general questions. The implementation body is to be in place from 2010 to 2014. The one question I cannot get answered by anyone is on what date it finishes in 2014.
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Was Mr. Fitzpatrick told when his job will finish?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: The point I have been trying to make is that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: -----if it is considered to be working and there was to be a renegotiation of it, we would want to know what the finish line would be before those negotiations would start.
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: We must wait and see.
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: I understand the body is meeting the Taoiseach and the relevant Ministers today and that all Departments were to come back to Mr. Fitzpatrick, I would imagine by today, with other potential savings they can make. Have all Departments come back to Mr. Fitzpatrick?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Is it that the Department will decide whether each individual Department has come up with enough change and enough savings and it will be Mr. Fitzpatrick's job to enforce it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Can we expect an announcement soon after that as to what each Department is expected to carry out?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Last February, quite a number of staff left the public sector. Can Mr. Fitzgerald tell us how many after that date were rehired and how many of them are currently still in those positions?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: As the implementation body, would Mr. Fitzpatrick not expect to have those figures as he was controlling the staff who were leaving the public sector? I accept there were certain emergency cases, such as teachers in education who had an examination year class. For instance, I know of one example where a person who left in February last got a job back in the examination centre in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: I would imagine, considering he chairs the implementation body for this agreement, that Mr. Fitzpatrick should have been afforded those numbers and how that was working within the different sectors.
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Who is used to verify that the savings have been made? Is it simply the implementation body or is there an external body brought in, and what is the story with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: What was the cost of that audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Agreement 2010-14: Discussion with Implementation Body (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: Has that to be done twice a year or once a year on only four?
- Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion (11 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: In respect of the announcement yesterday to target over 80 public service allowances, what savings will be achieved by the end of this year or into next year? Was a business case made for the payment of those allowances by the various Departments? Considering there are 80 and the Minister has said it is not an exhaustive list, does he believe there are many more allowances in that area that...
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)
Paul Connaughton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to speak on this very important Bill. When the electorate went to the polls on 31 May, it endorsed the contents of the fiscal compact treaty and the Bill marks the enactment of its wishes. Since the vote at the end of May, the need for Europe-wide agreement on budgetary rules has become even more apparent. It is only through greater...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (10 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 scheme payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43680/12]