Results 9,361-9,380 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: The figure of 85 for July had fallen to 84 in September, which suggests someone may have died.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: No, my apologies. The most up-to-date figures show that 84 people are in receipt of a pension of more than €100,000.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: With all due respect, I should clarify that the figures refer to people who are retiring now rather than existing pensioners.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: Deputy Sean Fleming is correct that of the 15,502 retired civil servants in the system, 84 have a pension of more than €100,000.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: If the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform were present, he would point out that the Government reduced pensions of more than €100,000 by 20%. This measure was implemented in the context of the financial emergency legislation introduced in 2009 by the Government led by Deputy Sean Fleming's party. The legislation in question was extended by the Government and stringent...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: I note the Deputy's request.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: The Deputy is ahead of the rest of us.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: I thank the Deputy for her Private Members' Bill to which the Government will give due consideration when the matter comes before the House. I want to be honest, we will look at any and every proposal that is made. As the Deputy rightly said the great majority of public service pensioners are on very modest pensions. She asked the number on pensions of €10,000 or less. I understand...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: I am just clarifying the point that some people make the charge that an enormous change has not occurred in the totality of expenditure. The point I am making is that in a three year period €2.5 billion has been taken out of the totality of public sector pay and pensions and, I hasten to add, there is another €1 billion to go but it is an example of the road that has been...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: What the Deputy refers to is misleading. Equally, it is misleading for the Deputy or anyone else to posit the view that simply going after people in receipt of pensions of €100,000 or more will make a huge difference in terms of the totality of the saving. I just make that observation as the Deputy referred to the point as misleading. What I am happy about is the fact that the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: I am not dismissing it.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: The Minister replied to a question the Deputy put to him on 21 November on the issue of additional reductions for people on salaries of €100,000 plus. I am not sure what her specific proposal is. We have made a reduction of 20%, but I am not sure what she proposes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: The advice that we have obtained, which was set out in the Minister's reply to the Deputy, was that a move to introduce close to a 100% rate of pension reduction on pensions over €100,000 could likely lead to the courts finding that such a complete restriction of property rights could give rise to legal difficulties and we set out that advice for the Deputy. We must be mindful of...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: Given that one must be clear that any scheme of reductions the Government proposes to make must be proportionate to the amounts people put in, their likely expectations due to their deferred remuneration and how they will be affected vis-à-vis other categories of pensioners, which is a crucial issue on which the courts would have a view.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: Yes. These are wonderful things to say for the purpose of headlines, quick fix pretend solutions and fantasy economics, but unlike the Deputy, we must bring in actual measures that will make a difference. We must bring in measures that matter and must introduce tax and expenditure issues as part of our obligation to hit the targets we have been given. The Deputy may well have the luxury of...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: Okay, but she can vote in the Chamber on it. If she or anyone chooses to vote against this, the clerical officer retiring next week, who will be on a very small pension, or the staff officer retiring with the legitimate expectation of a lump sum, will be left wanting. The money we are looking for is to ensure that we can balance our books in this Vote this year. The Deputy is putting...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: We will agree on that anyway.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: The only emergency measure we propose is an additional €25 million in this Vote, which will allow public servants on various pensions to be paid. That is what we are looking for.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Brian Hayes: As I pointed out at the start -----