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Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Posing overtime.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 177, Standing Order 131 is modified to permit an instruction to the Committee on the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011, that it has power to make provision in the Bill to provide for a new Part 5 comprised of two provisions: - to deem members of staff of the National Treasury Management Agency assigned to perform functions in the...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: That was a money Bill and it would not be a money Bill if these were included.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: He would probably know more than I do.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy can have confidence in Tipperary.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I genuinely appreciate the difficulties of the Deputies opposite. In the course of normal legislation once the Department is established, we will take on board their views and concerns to ensure we have the fullest debate. Deputy Sean Fleming is wrong about the Department's genesis. The thought process entered both parties' programmes separately. We were anxious to have fundamental...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I will leave some of my other comments for the debate on the amendments. I should address Deputy McDonald's comments on the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA. I thank Deputy Mattie McGrath for his good wishes and I will address the issues he raised as we deal with other amendments. The number of staff to be transferred is ten. They are recruited on a different basis to the public...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, before section 1, but in Part 1, to insert the following new section: 1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011. (2) Sections 6, 7, 8, and 14(3), and Parts 3 and 4 shall come into operation on the appointed day. (3) The Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2007 and this Act may be cited together as the Ministers...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We have had that debate.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: " "Act of 1945" means the National Stud Act 1945;". These are technical amendments to the definition in section 2 and include the definition of the Act referred to in the Bill and list the Acts which are cross-referenced. The term "appointed day" is in amendment No. 5, and the term "statutory instrument" is...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: " "Act of 1976" means the Gas Act 1976; "Act of 1983" means the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983; "Act of 1988" means the Forestry Act 1988; "Act of 1993" means the Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993; "Act of 1996" means the Harbours Act 1996;".

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 4: " "Act of 1998" means the Turf Development Act 1998;".

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, after line 32, to insert the following: " "appointed day" shall be construed in accordance with section 4;".

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, to delete lines 1 and 2. Amendments Nos. 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17 and 19 are being considered together, with amendment No. 20 in the name of Deputy Fleming. These amendments relate in the main to the definition in the Bill of "public service body". As the Minister for Finance is transferring to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform a number of...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Sure.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Excellent.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: There was so much coming in at one stage yesterday that it momentarily crashed. Four hundred people tried to access it.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Deputies opposite. Deputy Fleming made a number of points. To answer his first, which is probably most important, on how we determine that the highest paid should be the chief executive officer of the ESB, the Deputy will be aware that there was a process done when his party was in Government called the Hay process. It looked at setting pay levels for the commercial semi-State...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We will find the relevant section for the Deputy.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I will answer that specific question. As Deputy McDonald correctly indicated, the shareholding held by the Minister for Finance will transfer to me immediately on the enactment of the legislation. The disposal of it will be a matter for me in consultation with the Minister for Finance.