Results 421-440 of 1,036,632 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Niall Collins OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Chris Andrews)

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is no other place that somebody can go-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I just want to understand that in the context of bonus payments. The figures are very significant, with nearly 10% of payroll costs accounted for by bonus payments. I am coming from a public sector background. I was a teacher before becoming a Deputy and one's bonus payment consisted of someone putting a packet of biscuits on the table. I would like to know how Uisce Éireann...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: For the year in question, I have the overall figure which is €10,569,830. The average payout was €6,480, as detailed on page 67 of the accounts. Were there employees who did not receive a bonus of any kind during that year?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Can Mr. Gleeson give me a sense of the percentage of employees who did not receive any individualised bonus in 2023?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am trying to understand this in the context of my primary schoolteacher background, where people turn up and do their work all day long. If the bonus is almost built in, then how do people differentiate it from pay?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have data on the average payment but do our guests have information on what the larger bonus payments were?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I understand that but the point is that the company does not need to go to the market for its revenue.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, and I want to get to that as well. I want to dig down into the pay scales. I want our guests to help me to understand the competencies of the staff base that underpin the staffing costs but I would like to get some sense of the larger end of the bonuses paid out.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does that cover everything? I know it excludes pension but is there anything within that payment situation that I am missing in terms of perks like company car allowances and so on? I would like a fuller picture of what the pay and conditions look like.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Mr. Gleeson have a sense of how many car allowances there are?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Gleeson said that Uisce Éireann has to go out to the market to source its employees. I did a quick tot of the employees earning between €100,000 and €200,000. There are 328 employees within that bracket, earning six-figure salaries, and there are 16 people in the organisation who earn above that. That is a lot of people. I know Uisce Éireann is a big...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I ask Mr. Gleeson to explain how the benchmarking happens because it is obviously very different from public sector benchmarking.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have given a good deal of time to that matter. I thank Mr. McCarthy very much for the answers. I want to get to a bunch of things. I want to ask about liabilities for fines, which we do have. We are liable for fines from Europe, Inland Fisheries Ireland, IFI, and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. I had a glance through the synopsis from the audit and risk committee. I am...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The fines go directly to Uisce Éireann as opposed to the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has there been any kind of foresight work on this? Are we expecting fines to come down the track?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a quick question on leakage rates. I want to ask about international comparators. I see that Uisce Éireann went from 46% in 2018 to just under 37% in 2022. I hope that progress has continued into 2024. Will Mr. Gleeson give me an international comparator, such as Denmark or the Netherlands, where I can compare like with like in terms of the leakage rates?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Gleeson give me a monetary figure for that? Will he also put it in terms of the number of litres lost from the system? Each litre comes with a treatment cost and an energy cost. Will he give me a ballpark figure of essentially how much money we are leaking into the ground because of the poor pipe network?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there not a way to account for the losses? Could Mr. Gleeson not even give me a ballpark figure?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Chair?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I wish to refer to correspondence that came in to Deputy Pa Daly's office. It came from an Irishman who is married to a man who does not have Irish citizenship. His husband had exceeded the wait time considerably and he was in contact with a number of others who were in the same situation. Many people received emails from the Department of Justice stating that there was a delay but that...