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- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Draw away.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Did the Deputy's father not support it?
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Did the Deputy's father support it?
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Is this the truth?
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: It was a shocking decision.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I agree with the Deputy that it was a shocking decision.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy's father was wrong.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I will explain it to the Deputy.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: It is a promissory note, not bondholders.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I drove up and down the N11 before the M11 was built.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: That is what the rest of the world does.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I have three or four minutes to do justice to a debate. This is the second opportunity Members had to make a contribution on this and I thank everybody for their contribution. The truth is we do not live in normal times. Listening to some of the contributions from the far side of the House, one would think these were normal times and we were not in a desperate crisis. We have taken a step...
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The size of the public service grew significantly in the early years of the last decade. By 2008, some 320,000 were employed in the public service and, by 2009, the gross Exchequer pay bill peaked at more than â¬17.5 billion. It is perhaps easy to become jaded in our discussion of public service pay costs. However, I would ask the House to note that the total net cost of the public...
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: It will be â¬400 million.
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: It is ongoing.
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: There will be no new liability.
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy should not will a disaster upon us.
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The reduction in numbers is 3%.
- Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: As the Deputy will be aware the Public Service Reform Plan, published in November, stated that in future, legislation to create a new State Body must now include a sunset clause ensuring that the Body will cease to exist after a predetermined date unless the Body's mandate is specifically renewed. However, to date no new semi-state organisations have been established in legislation since the...
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (8 Mar 2012)
Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question the following appointments were made to bodies under the aegis of my Department. An Post National Lottery Name of Appointee Date Appointed Mr. Donal Connell - Chairman re-appointedFebruary 29th 2012. The position to which Mr Connell was re-appointed by me as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was not advertised as under the National Lottery Act...