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Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister's response to Deputy Burton is disingenuous. I am familiar too with the hospice movement. When the Irish Wheelchair Association, IWA, and Rehab came in here they showed how they had cut salaries in step with FEMPI, as they were asked to do at the time. The Minister may not be aware that the IWA took a case to the Labour Court recently and was vindicated. The trade unions...

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: For many of those the Minister is employing his response is disingenuous.

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the Civil Service People Strategy 2017-2020 and on the way in which this is being delivered to create a high-performing Civil Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53255/17]

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Obviously, we have all been reading Our Public Service 2020-----

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: -----which is a fine summary of the work of our 315,000 public servants, to whom we are greatly indebted, across all of the key sectors of the public service - health, education, security and so on. I wish to ask about this matter because the public service resource is our people, the men and women who are all around us in the Chamber today, in Departments and throughout the Republic....

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister did not invite me.

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Okay.

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the Minister's establishment of a public service development board, if that was the name mentioned, but a basic point must be acknowledged. The report includes the findings that our Civil Service ranks as first in the European Union as the most professional and least politicised public service, ranks sixth for the quality of our public administration and ranks fifth in terms of the...

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Regarding professional development, is there a role in Ireland for third level specialist colleges like those in, for example, France, where the cadre of leading civil servants receive continuous professional education?

Other Questions: Civil Service Reform (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Just a follow-up. The report stresses service delivery and public feedback. There is incredible dissatisfaction among our constituents with the delivery of a modern health service or the delivery of any kind of social housing pipeline. People are much happier with the delivery of basic services in other areas, for example, education and the Civil Service generally. Is communication with...

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for this brief opportunity to speak on this important matter. The 37th anniversary of the Stardust tragedy will be on 14 February 2018. The horrific inferno on that night stole the lives of 48 of our young people and left 214 others injured. It occurred in a dance hall with chained and blocked exits. Earlier this week, journalist Charlie Bird brought us back to...

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Following the publication of the Coffey report, we had the moment in Dáil Éireann when the outrageous slur on the young victims of the Stardust tragedy and all the other young people who attended that night was removed from the Dáil record. I was delighted to read the names of the 48 victims into the record of this Dáil.

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: If I could just have another minute or two, a Cheann Comhairle. There is a strong belief on the northside that successive Ministers for justice, going back to Ray Burke and down to the incumbent, the Minister, Deputy Charlie Flanagan, have failed the communities of the northside and the relatives and victims of the Stardust tragedy.

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: We are a little ahead of time because I do not believe we have the full range-----

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I just want to conclude. I did not want the McCartan assessment to take place because I feared that it was the Government’s plan to kick the can down the road and to narrow the terms of reference so much that it was set up to fail from the beginning. Anyway, what could a Coffey part two exercise achieve? We clearly now need a commission of investigation under the 2004 Act, with the...

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Only a full new commission of investigation can do that. I submitted a motion to the Ceann Comhairle's office and I hope that early next year our ministerial colleagues and also the Deputies in Fianna Fáil will have the opportunity of supporting that motion and that we finally get justice and closure for the relatives and victims of this horrendous disaster.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Renewal Plan (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proposed outcomes under the third progress report on the implementation of the Civil Service renewal plan and, in particular, on the way in which the 25 specific actions in four key areas will improve the performance of Departments of State which have been the subject of recent public criticism; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Review (14 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the key actions to improve public services under the our public service 2020 plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53254/17]