Post by corrupteire on Sept 18, 2012 15:34:00 GMT -5
A Review of Public Sector Allowances and given us some insight into what some Public Sector Workers are in receipt off.
Below are Allowances they want to keep.
The Saturday allowance and the Sunday premia payment
Both shift and unsocial hour Allowances
The allowance payable to keyholders (ie those on call) across various sectors e.g. Chester Beatty’s six keyholders as there is no 24-hour security
The Eating on Site allowance which is paid as compensation for lunch breaks taken away from designated base
Dirty Money is still to be paid for undertaking certain dirty duties, including sewerage facilities, landfill, removal of deal animals.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Education:
Visiting Teachers Allowance to those teaching the visually impaired and hearing impaired
The Secure Unit Allowance/Disturbed Adolescent Allowance
payable to teachers working in children’s detention centres
The allowance paid to teachers with 35 years service or more
The allowance for the July Provision Scheme Management paid to one staff member in Special schools where there is a summer programme
The allowance for the SNA July Programme
The script marking allowances in Institutes of Technology only
Defence
The Foreign Language Proficiency Allowance paid to those with NATO-standard proficiency
The ‘In-Charge’ Allowance payable to those in the Naval Service
Aid to the Civil Authority paid at a per day-rate of between €49.76 and €99.60 for those helping outside normal hours of duty e.g. during flood or snow relief
Change of Station Allowance arising from a mandatory move
Fire Protection Pay for those on duty at Government buildings. It is paid at a daily rate of €5.06
Explosive Ordance Duty Allowance of over €90 paid daily to personnel engaged in 24-hour bomb disposal work
Overseas Allowances for both peace support and missions
Allowance for those performing duty at Portlaoise prison
Local Government
The allowance for the Water and Sewerage Caretaker
The allowance for extra duties carried out by the Water Safety Development Officer
The allowance paid to employees who are on call for out of hours emergency road gritting and salting operations
Garda Sector
Allowances for those appointed as Scenes of Crime Examiners
Allowances for Immigration officers
Dog Handler Allowance
Public Holiday Allowance
Boot Allowance
Plain Clothes Allowance
Uniform Cleaning Allowance
Detective Allowance
An allowance for those 34 drivers working in the Ministerial pool
HSE
Sleep-in overnight allowance
The allowance to employees who participate in the Assisted Admissions Tea
The allowance for advanced paramedics for those who meet the qualifying criteria
CIVIL SERVICE
Irish Prisons Service
The allowance for the National Head Chaplain
Payment for attending Core Hours of duty
Revenue
Dog Handler Allowance
Various allowances for those on duty at Dublin Airport
The allowance for the Joint Investigation Unit
Justice
The out-of-hours allowance for the Press Officer of the Irish Prison Service
The out-of-hours allowances for duties relating to sentence management
Private Secretary allowances for supreme court and high court judges
The allowance for the call out of the State Pathologist
Social Protection
The allowance for the Special Investigation Unit which probes suspect fraudulent activities
The Call Out Availability Allowance paid to the manager of the local office
Agriculture, Fisheries and Marine
Assistant Manager and Farm Manager at Longtown Farm
Pesticides Allowance
The Special Investigation Unit Allowance
The Post-Mortem Room Allowance
Office of Public Works
The allowance paid to three senior clerk of works to work at a higher level of responsibility at the Mechanical & Electrical Section
– Special Duty
Central Statistics Office
The mobile phone allowance of €12.70 per month so the pricing liaison officer can contact the office and the 90 price collectors off-site
A €1,728 allowance for the pricing liaison officer for training price collectors and carrying out quality control checks
The allowance for service attendants’ extra duties
NON-COMMERCIAL STATE AGENCIES
Road Safety Authority
Transport Officer Allowance
Atypical Working Hours Allowance
Training Allowance for driving testers
Vehicle Inspector Allowance
National Museum of Ireland
IT Allowance for the provision of support at the museum site in Castlebar
Senior Sales Allowance
Chester Beatty
Uniform allowance for shoes, socks and dry-cleaning
Box making/Microfilming Allowance give to those carrying out duties to preserve collections
IMMA
Supervisor Higher Duty (Cleaning) allowance for maintaining rosters and ordering stock
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Flight Allowance
Flight Manager’s Flying Allowance
Health and Safety Authority
Call out allowance
Teagasc
Responsibility Allowance
Regional Managers Allowance
Staff Officers Allowance
Admin Grade 2 Allowance
College Principal Allowance
Head of Department Allowance
Programme Leader Allowance
Grade 3 Higher Allowance
Enterprise Leader
College Staff Officers Allowance
And now for the Allowances they want to get rid off
In education:
Allowance for moving to and living on an island to teach, or for teaching through Irish (although it’s being kept for teaching through Irish at the Military College in the Curragh and current teachers)
Allowance to school principals who act as secretary on a Board of Management
Allowance for certain Youthreach Personnel and instructors in outdoor education centres or for teaching adult literary, some adult education courses
Allowance for academics who have a higher degree, medical qualification than those needed to teach certain courses
Allowance given to a staff teacher for advance prep of the summer programme (July scheme) for children with autism and learning disabilities (voluntary managers of the July scheme get to keep this)
Stocktaking allowance for teaching and non-teaching employees in schools andtelephone allowance to general operatives in schools -for having a telephone in case you need to be contacted out of hours.
Gardai:
Rent allowance
Clerical allowance
Grant for promotion exam
Radio, bicycle, transport, locomotion allowance
Allowance for motor technician skills
HSE:
Allowance for having midwifery qualification, RGN in the community, being nurse tutor
Trainer allowance
Second opinion allowance
Dual responsibility allowance
Special allowance for weekend public holidays
Allowance for consultants continuing medical education allowance
Living out allowance
Community and cardiac allowance
Defence:
Entertainment allowances
Chaplain’s housekeeping allowance
Underwear and night attire allowance
Allowances for NCO account holders
Allowance for a health and safety officer
Allowance for being editors of Connect and Cosantoir publications
Local government:
Dual duties allowances (the only one abolished – according to their own submission, it’s only payable in a small number of cases)
CIVIL SERVICE ALLOWANCES TO BE ABOLISHED:
Prisons:
Rent allowance
Allowance for court escort, laundress, nurse officer allowance, hospital orderly, being a clerk to certain committees
Callout allowance
Plain clothes (for certain grades)
Tuck shop, baker, locking area allowances
Courts service:
Chief clerk in circuit offices allowance, HEOs in district courts
Family law (in Limerick and Cork CC) and registrar allowances
Legal Aid Board:
Managing Solicitor Grade 1 loses allowances
Agriculture, Food and Marine:
Special edition allowance, livestock allowance, synchrolift allowance (that’s for operatives of a certain type of shiplift to you and I)
Housing allowance for harbourmasters
Office of Public Works:
Allowance for sitting on a committee
Taoiseach’s office:
Clothing allowance
Allowance for the personal assistant to the Taoiseach’s private office (this was an extra allowance to make up for “the demands, heavy workload, confidentiality and responsibility attaching to this post, which involves regular contact with the Chief of Staff and Special Advisers”.)
Chief State Solicitor’s Office:
Allowance for the assistant Chief State Solicitor
Central Statistics Office
Bus allowance (this was given to the six full-time passenger counters who worked at Dublin Airport) and travel allowance (this was given to two part-timers in this job who travelled more than five miles to work)
Passenger Card Inquiry allowance (This was again to the six full-time passenger enumerators who handed out survey cards to travellers an dhelped them fill them out).
NON-COMMERCIAL STATE AGENCY ALLOWANCES TO BE ABOLISHED
Teagasc:
Accommodation and chefs allowance
FETAC:
Project Office Allowance
Allowance for the secretary taking council minutes
Higher Education Authority:
Acting allowance
FÁS:
Allowances for those carrying out duties higher than their normal grade
State Examinations Commission:
Reproduction unit allowance – that’s for clerical staff who typeset exam question papers – it’s to “cover the confidential nature of the work”.
Road Safety Allowance:
Bus allowance for three Dublin-based service officers – it was a legacy arrangement from when driver-testing was part of the Dept of Transport and these officers had to bring post from the test centre to the Custom House.
IMMA:
Supervisory Higher Duty allowance
Shannon Development:
Travel allowance for those staff resident outside Shannon
Special allowance for those in senior management
HSA:
Allowance for telephone duties.
You can view the Allowances at the governments website below
per.gov.ie/review-of-public-sector-allowances-and-premium-payments-business-cases-submitted-for-review/
Below are Allowances they want to keep.
The Saturday allowance and the Sunday premia payment
Both shift and unsocial hour Allowances
The allowance payable to keyholders (ie those on call) across various sectors e.g. Chester Beatty’s six keyholders as there is no 24-hour security
The Eating on Site allowance which is paid as compensation for lunch breaks taken away from designated base
Dirty Money is still to be paid for undertaking certain dirty duties, including sewerage facilities, landfill, removal of deal animals.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Education:
Visiting Teachers Allowance to those teaching the visually impaired and hearing impaired
The Secure Unit Allowance/Disturbed Adolescent Allowance
payable to teachers working in children’s detention centres
The allowance paid to teachers with 35 years service or more
The allowance for the July Provision Scheme Management paid to one staff member in Special schools where there is a summer programme
The allowance for the SNA July Programme
The script marking allowances in Institutes of Technology only
Defence
The Foreign Language Proficiency Allowance paid to those with NATO-standard proficiency
The ‘In-Charge’ Allowance payable to those in the Naval Service
Aid to the Civil Authority paid at a per day-rate of between €49.76 and €99.60 for those helping outside normal hours of duty e.g. during flood or snow relief
Change of Station Allowance arising from a mandatory move
Fire Protection Pay for those on duty at Government buildings. It is paid at a daily rate of €5.06
Explosive Ordance Duty Allowance of over €90 paid daily to personnel engaged in 24-hour bomb disposal work
Overseas Allowances for both peace support and missions
Allowance for those performing duty at Portlaoise prison
Local Government
The allowance for the Water and Sewerage Caretaker
The allowance for extra duties carried out by the Water Safety Development Officer
The allowance paid to employees who are on call for out of hours emergency road gritting and salting operations
Garda Sector
Allowances for those appointed as Scenes of Crime Examiners
Allowances for Immigration officers
Dog Handler Allowance
Public Holiday Allowance
Boot Allowance
Plain Clothes Allowance
Uniform Cleaning Allowance
Detective Allowance
An allowance for those 34 drivers working in the Ministerial pool
HSE
Sleep-in overnight allowance
The allowance to employees who participate in the Assisted Admissions Tea
The allowance for advanced paramedics for those who meet the qualifying criteria
CIVIL SERVICE
Irish Prisons Service
The allowance for the National Head Chaplain
Payment for attending Core Hours of duty
Revenue
Dog Handler Allowance
Various allowances for those on duty at Dublin Airport
The allowance for the Joint Investigation Unit
Justice
The out-of-hours allowance for the Press Officer of the Irish Prison Service
The out-of-hours allowances for duties relating to sentence management
Private Secretary allowances for supreme court and high court judges
The allowance for the call out of the State Pathologist
Social Protection
The allowance for the Special Investigation Unit which probes suspect fraudulent activities
The Call Out Availability Allowance paid to the manager of the local office
Agriculture, Fisheries and Marine
Assistant Manager and Farm Manager at Longtown Farm
Pesticides Allowance
The Special Investigation Unit Allowance
The Post-Mortem Room Allowance
Office of Public Works
The allowance paid to three senior clerk of works to work at a higher level of responsibility at the Mechanical & Electrical Section
– Special Duty
Central Statistics Office
The mobile phone allowance of €12.70 per month so the pricing liaison officer can contact the office and the 90 price collectors off-site
A €1,728 allowance for the pricing liaison officer for training price collectors and carrying out quality control checks
The allowance for service attendants’ extra duties
NON-COMMERCIAL STATE AGENCIES
Road Safety Authority
Transport Officer Allowance
Atypical Working Hours Allowance
Training Allowance for driving testers
Vehicle Inspector Allowance
National Museum of Ireland
IT Allowance for the provision of support at the museum site in Castlebar
Senior Sales Allowance
Chester Beatty
Uniform allowance for shoes, socks and dry-cleaning
Box making/Microfilming Allowance give to those carrying out duties to preserve collections
IMMA
Supervisor Higher Duty (Cleaning) allowance for maintaining rosters and ordering stock
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Flight Allowance
Flight Manager’s Flying Allowance
Health and Safety Authority
Call out allowance
Teagasc
Responsibility Allowance
Regional Managers Allowance
Staff Officers Allowance
Admin Grade 2 Allowance
College Principal Allowance
Head of Department Allowance
Programme Leader Allowance
Grade 3 Higher Allowance
Enterprise Leader
College Staff Officers Allowance
And now for the Allowances they want to get rid off
In education:
Allowance for moving to and living on an island to teach, or for teaching through Irish (although it’s being kept for teaching through Irish at the Military College in the Curragh and current teachers)
Allowance to school principals who act as secretary on a Board of Management
Allowance for certain Youthreach Personnel and instructors in outdoor education centres or for teaching adult literary, some adult education courses
Allowance for academics who have a higher degree, medical qualification than those needed to teach certain courses
Allowance given to a staff teacher for advance prep of the summer programme (July scheme) for children with autism and learning disabilities (voluntary managers of the July scheme get to keep this)
Stocktaking allowance for teaching and non-teaching employees in schools andtelephone allowance to general operatives in schools -for having a telephone in case you need to be contacted out of hours.
Gardai:
Rent allowance
Clerical allowance
Grant for promotion exam
Radio, bicycle, transport, locomotion allowance
Allowance for motor technician skills
HSE:
Allowance for having midwifery qualification, RGN in the community, being nurse tutor
Trainer allowance
Second opinion allowance
Dual responsibility allowance
Special allowance for weekend public holidays
Allowance for consultants continuing medical education allowance
Living out allowance
Community and cardiac allowance
Defence:
Entertainment allowances
Chaplain’s housekeeping allowance
Underwear and night attire allowance
Allowances for NCO account holders
Allowance for a health and safety officer
Allowance for being editors of Connect and Cosantoir publications
Local government:
Dual duties allowances (the only one abolished – according to their own submission, it’s only payable in a small number of cases)
CIVIL SERVICE ALLOWANCES TO BE ABOLISHED:
Prisons:
Rent allowance
Allowance for court escort, laundress, nurse officer allowance, hospital orderly, being a clerk to certain committees
Callout allowance
Plain clothes (for certain grades)
Tuck shop, baker, locking area allowances
Courts service:
Chief clerk in circuit offices allowance, HEOs in district courts
Family law (in Limerick and Cork CC) and registrar allowances
Legal Aid Board:
Managing Solicitor Grade 1 loses allowances
Agriculture, Food and Marine:
Special edition allowance, livestock allowance, synchrolift allowance (that’s for operatives of a certain type of shiplift to you and I)
Housing allowance for harbourmasters
Office of Public Works:
Allowance for sitting on a committee
Taoiseach’s office:
Clothing allowance
Allowance for the personal assistant to the Taoiseach’s private office (this was an extra allowance to make up for “the demands, heavy workload, confidentiality and responsibility attaching to this post, which involves regular contact with the Chief of Staff and Special Advisers”.)
Chief State Solicitor’s Office:
Allowance for the assistant Chief State Solicitor
Central Statistics Office
Bus allowance (this was given to the six full-time passenger counters who worked at Dublin Airport) and travel allowance (this was given to two part-timers in this job who travelled more than five miles to work)
Passenger Card Inquiry allowance (This was again to the six full-time passenger enumerators who handed out survey cards to travellers an dhelped them fill them out).
NON-COMMERCIAL STATE AGENCY ALLOWANCES TO BE ABOLISHED
Teagasc:
Accommodation and chefs allowance
FETAC:
Project Office Allowance
Allowance for the secretary taking council minutes
Higher Education Authority:
Acting allowance
FÁS:
Allowances for those carrying out duties higher than their normal grade
State Examinations Commission:
Reproduction unit allowance – that’s for clerical staff who typeset exam question papers – it’s to “cover the confidential nature of the work”.
Road Safety Allowance:
Bus allowance for three Dublin-based service officers – it was a legacy arrangement from when driver-testing was part of the Dept of Transport and these officers had to bring post from the test centre to the Custom House.
IMMA:
Supervisory Higher Duty allowance
Shannon Development:
Travel allowance for those staff resident outside Shannon
Special allowance for those in senior management
HSA:
Allowance for telephone duties.
You can view the Allowances at the governments website below
per.gov.ie/review-of-public-sector-allowances-and-premium-payments-business-cases-submitted-for-review/