Results 10,821-10,840 of 19,445 for speaker:Brian Cowen
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: The programme was the most ambitious ever devised in the State. It aimed to include not only those Departments which had a tradition of decentralisation and interoperability but also the wider public service and agencies in which these traditions did not exist. While industrial relations issues have arisen in some agencies, up to 525 people from the agencies in question have relocated. The...
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: I do not accept that. There are 2,500 relocations, which is in excess of previous schemes.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: Some are.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: Let us be clear about this. The decentralisation programme is available to everyone. If it is characterised as an administrative relocation, people from all parts of the country who work in the public service and may wish to get closer to home are entitled to apply in the same way as everyone else. The important point is that the posts that would have been created within the Dublin area in...
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: No, let us be fair. He indicated the hope that 10,000 would relocate in three years. It was clear once we got into the IR process that this would not be possible. The decentralisation implementation group has produced four reports since that Budget Statement outlining why the timelines must change to take account of the various requirements of the situation in terms of obtaining suitable...
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: That is clearly set out by the decentralisation implementation group, the report of which was adopted by the Government. We have moved on in terms of timelines. We are stating that by the end of 2010, as we approach the review in 2011, the decentralisation implementation group expects 6,000 to be relocated at that stage. That is a fair achievement in any terms.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: The Deputy will appreciate that the detail of that would be best put to the line Minister concerned in terms of the Department of public service but I will try to answer the questions as best I can from my own prior experience and the information available to me. On the question of numbers, and this was the point I was trying to make to Deputy Kenny, up to September 2008 over 13,000 civil and...
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: Or from Dublin. Deputy Gilmore can put a Dublin name in there somewhere. He does not have to make it very complicated.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: I do not have that figure.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: I will make inquiries about that.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: I cannot win with Deputy Gilmore.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: One must have an orderly process where members of a service are entitled as a right to apply where a post arises.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: Deputy Gilmore knows that better than most. He remembers that. That number of posts has been taken out of Dublin into the country areas in the locations decided upon. Were we not to have a decentralisation programme those posts would be filled within the Dublin area. One must relocate on the basis on an equal entitlement for everybody regardless of where they are from. The ultimate...
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: It is 2,500 now with 3,500 ready to move.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: It is not a question of jigging around.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: Either one gives equal entitlement to people in the public service or one does not. There is no jigging around.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: I do not have that figure.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: The question was put down to my Department but it is not my Department's responsibility. I cannot win with Deputy Gilmore.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: The rising of the moon.
- Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)
Brian Cowen: Decisions on the timing of further work on the implementation of the balance of the decentralisation programme are being deferred, pending the outcome of the 2011 review. That is a sensible and reasonable approach to adopt in light of recent budgetary developments. Some 22 of the 32 staff in my Department who applied to relocate have already been assigned to decentralised posts. It is...