Results 21,601-21,620 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: They are not average figures if every potential loss is included. We will provide the Deputy with the information.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: They voted on it.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Let me answer that question first. It is aimed at nobody in particular. It is a general provision; it involves an extension on an existing provision. Let me be very clear. The FEMPI legislation on reducing public sector pay is something that no one wanted, but we are in a crisis. Some of the Deputies opposite live in fantasy land where there is no crisis or----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: ----the tides of economic fortune will come in and we will not have to do anything but hold our breath and stand on the shore. We were in a crisis. We had no money and the people who were lending us money put conditions on it. Like any good employer, I talked in an open fashion to public sector unions and the employees of the public sector and asked them to negotiate a deal with me. They...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: -----for agreeing that. They were not bullied or anything else. They faced the challenges that we all had to face in the most serious economic crisis of our time and made a substantial contribution. I want to restore that to them incrementally in a way that is affordable and does not put at risk the progress that we have made. To answer the Deputy's question directly, it is aimed at no...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: What union and what agreement?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: What agreements?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I am going to honour it to the letter.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: The Lansdowne Road agreement is a continuation of the Haddington Road agreement and is to dovetail into it. I am not walking away from the Haddington Road agreement at all. I am asking unions, having engaged with those in the public sector, to extend some of that agreement's provisions and begin the dismantling of the FEMPI legislation in an orderly way. The majority of trade unions in the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I am not stopping anyone's increment.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I expect people to abide by a negotiated collective agreement that has been accepted by a majority. This is how normal negotiations and trade unions operate. I want to continue through negotiation, agreement and public sector votes. If any particular union has a difficulty with this, my officials are there to go through this as we work our way out of a dreadful crisis to better times....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Deputy not agree with the vote of the-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: They did agree.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Deputy want me to opt out of the agreement?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Absolutely not.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: This suits the political argument.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: We have exhausted the issue.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Yes, but it is-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: It is complex. It is not a case of a "Yes" or "No" answer.