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- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Civil Service Disciplinary Code sets out the procedures for dealing with dismissals in the Civil Service. Prior to 2006, disciplinary and dismissal procedures were as set out in Circular 1/1992. Under these procedures, it was the responsibility of the Government to decide whether a civil servant should be dismissed. Under these procedures, my Department submitted each case to the...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 292 and 293 together. The Civil Service Disciplinary Code sets out the procedures for dealing with dismissals in the Civil Service. Prior to 2006, disciplinary and dismissal procedures were as set out in Circular 1/1992. Under these procedures, it was the responsibility of the Government to decide whether a civil servant should be dismissed. Under these...
- Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (3 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: As I explained in my reply of 22 May 2012, Ireland has been allocated a total of â¬901 million in EU Structural Funding for the period 2007-13. Of this, â¬750 million is assigned to the Regional Competitiveness and Employment objective, and the balance to Territorial Co-operation programmes, including the PEACE III (Ireland/NI), INTERREG IVA (Ireland/NI and Western Scotland) and the...
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (3 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The following appointments have been made to bodies under the aegis of my Department: An Post National Lottery Name of Appointee Date Appointed Mr. Donal Connell - ChairmanMr. Peter Quinn â Director re-appointed February 29th 201216 February 2012 On 22 November 2011, I reappointed Mr Connell as chairman until 29 February 2012 to allow him time to appear before the Joint Oireachtas...
- Written Answers — Legal Services: Legal Services (3 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Over the past few years, my Department has been engaged with the State's law offices, which are critically involved in the engagement of legal services, with a view to pursuing reductions in overall costs and increasing competitive forces. Reductions in fee levels are being achieved through a number of different measures. In accordance with the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public...
- Written Answers — Croke Park Agreement: Croke Park Agreement (3 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I have had no recent meetings with the social partners in relation to the Croke Park Agreement, which is an agreement reached between the Government as an employer and the unions and associations representing public servants. It is not an agreement made in the context of social partnership.
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: My Department has access to detailed data on increments only in the Civil Service sector, for which I have direct responsibility. On increments generally, based on the information submitted to my Department on the total cost of increments in a full year in the various sectors, the full year cost of increments, excluding the local authority sector, is now estimated at no more than â¬180...
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Half of that this year.
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I appreciate what I believe is the Deputy's considered view. As I said, I will discuss anything to do with the area under my purview. Everything should be on the agenda for discussion at least. The Deputy is right on a number of points. Let me be clear. Various Labour Court determinations have stated that increments are part of basic pay - that is a fact. The Labour Court has determined...
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Civil servants.
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I will try to determine that figure and I will also look beyond the Civil Service to get the data, which are lodged in other Departments. I will ask for them.
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 and 5 together. I assume the Deputy is referring to section 1.16 of the Croke Park agreement in Question No. 2 which relates to the statutory requirement under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts of 2009 to review the operation, effectiveness and impact of the Acts on an annual basis before 30 June. The review also takes account of...
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has to be clear about what she means. If she is talking about setting new pay scales into the future, it will obviously require legislation. However, it would be a different matter to interfere with existing pay rates because not only would it upset the Croke Park agreement, but it would also involve significant industrial relations issues. If the Deputy is talking about putting...
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: What is an excessive salary?
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: There is a specific question on this matter.
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I am going to deal with these matters specifically and would like time to deal with each of the questions Deputies submitted.
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Deputy have any question, a Leas-Chathaoirligh?
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, it is not normal to pre-empt other Members' questions, especially when time is limited. However, I will respond to several of the questions raised by the Deputy. She is of the view that there should be a general salary cap of â¬100,000 across the public service. That would mean no doctor, researcher, academic or senior administrator would earn over â¬100,000. The...
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: What the Deputy is doing in her constant attacks on the public sector is ensuring there is a thriving private sector; she wants to destroy the basis of public sector provision of key services. I am not going to go down that road. We have a highly progressive taxation system. The marginal rate of taxation, including levies, for those earning over â¬100,000 is 62.5%. If we need to go...
- Public Sector Pay (4 Jul 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I made it clear that exceptions could be made in cases where the people recruited specifically could show me that their income in the place from which they had left to join the public service on a temporary contract was greater. The people to whom the Deputy referred have, by and large, taken substantial pay cuts in order to move into the public service. I instanced my own adviser in this...