Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 April 2012
105 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have received redundancy payments from one State owned bank and who then immediately took up positions of employment in another State employed bank; if he will provide details including the cost of these redundancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17865/12]
View answer128 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff taken on by Allied Irish Bank and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, or the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide who had previously taken redundancy packages from another State owned bank; if he has considered the scope to directly transfer staff between State owned banks in order that staff are not paid a redundancy package by one State owned bank and then rehired by another State owned bank. [18008/12]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 105 and 128 together.
I am advised that the information requested by the Deputy is not routinely collected and indeed raises legal issues, from an individual's perspective, as to whether this information could be sought in the first instance. Accordingly, I am not in a position to supply the information that the Deputy seeks in this instance.
I have taken note of the Deputy's suggestion of the possibility of transferring staff between State supported institutions. I would note, however, that the present voluntary redundancy scheme on offer at IBRC — which is the only such scheme on offer presently — precludes certain areas which are pivotal to that bank's operation and which are more likely to have staff with the skills sought at the other covered institutions.
