Results 121-139 of 139 for 5 million speaker:Brendan Howlin

Adjournment Debate Matters (16 Jun 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ...for these pupils; (4) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the refusal of the CEO of the Health Service Executive to meet with the Oireachtas Members of Tipperary South despite many requests to do so to date; (5) Deputy Chris Andrews - to ask the Minister to comment on the steps that are being taken to combat the growing phenomenon of social isolation within urban communities and to outline the...

Adjournment Debate Matters (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ...Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government into the practices in the Dublin City Council planning department which arrived at such an inconsistent decision on planning application 5051/07 (former Jury's and Berkeley Court site, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4), in light of last Friday's decision by An Bord Pleanála (PL29S.228512); (2) Deputy Alan Shatter — the failure of the...

Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...The third misconception is that public servants are not paying for their pensions. I have heard some echoes of that since coming to the House tonight. The position is that significant contributions are paid, generally 5% for main scheme benefits and 1.5% for spouses' and children's benefits for all staff in place since 1995. In addition, as we all know, public servants pay a pension...

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Motion (11 Jul 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...31st day of December, 2013, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General, including a grant-in-aid. Vote 4 -- Central Statistics Office (Revised Estimate).That a sum not exceeding €39,758,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2013, for the salaries and expenses of the...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ..., or the value of the work being provided. On the commercial semi-State bodies listed in the Schedule, let us take as an example CIE. The Broadmeadow Estuary bridge was repaired at a cost of €4 million and reopening that important service for commuters was regarded as an imperative. If we had informed the company in the CIE group charged with doing this work that all procurement...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Agencies (21 Nov 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 13, 15 and 16 together. As the Deputy is aware, the streamlining of State bodies is set out in the Public Service Reform Plan, published in November 2011. This streamlining included 48 rationalisation measures to be implemented by the end of 2012, as well as a further 46 critical reviews to take place by the end of June 2012. Details of the bodies involved are...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...half pay, to three months full pay and three months half pay. We know that in many areas of the public service absenteeism levels are high compared to best practice benchmarks, ranging from 4% to 5%. The direct pay bill cost of this absenteeism has been estimated at approximately €500 million and necessary substitution of staff in some sectors attracts additional costs. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Abolition (5 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...of responsibility for the citizen. This will be of real and lasting benefit to all citizens, regardless of any headline figure on savings. Specifically, the Public Service Reform Plan aimed to secure €20 million in enhanced service efficiencies and value-for-money from the rationalisation programme. The bulk of the savings are derived from a reduction in the number of public...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Feb 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...to the fact that we now have a major problem regarding the backlog of serious trials. These are trials under the determination of the Courts Service that cannot commence during a period of level 5 restrictions. We have a serious backlog and we do not know how long either level 5 or analogous restrictions will apply, although it is clear that will be well beyond this month and probably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...The ESB made an announcement last October regarding the sale of some of its non-strategic generation capacity, involving a package of assets being brought to the market on a phased basis commencing in 2013. In February, the ESB announced its intention to sell its 50% shareholding in each of its international tolling plants - Marchwood in the United Kingdom and Amorbieta in Spain. The...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...in relation to the public service to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and puts public service reform and modernisation functions on a statutory basis for the first time. Section 5 provides that the Government may determine, by order, a day to be the "appointed day" under the Act. It is intended that it will be 5 July. Hopefully, we will have the assent of both Houses, the...

Seanad: Public Expenditure and Reform: Statements (8 Nov 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...economic growth in 2011 for the first time since 2007. The budgetary adjustment process will present very large challenges to meet the firm commitment to reduce the deficit to below 3% of GDP by 2015. This will require difficult choices to be made in all areas of public expenditure and to ensure that we remain on a credible path of budgetary adjustment. The public service pay and...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...Interest Acts of 2009 to serving members of the Judiciary in line with the decision of the people in the referendum on the Twenty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution. The latter amended Article 35.5 of the Constitution in respect of judicial remuneration. The proposed amendment to the Constitution was approved by both Houses. The referendum on judicial pay, as proposed and put before...

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...regard. The proposals segmented the workforce into four income categories and treated each differently. Those earning in excess of €100,000 would suffer permanent losses in pay. Those between €65,000 and €100,000 were afforded a path to pay restoration following the expiry of the agreement. Those under €65,000 suffered no loss in core pay. In the zero to...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Second Stage (29 Jan 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...were only 2% lower than in 2007. The lottery continues to generate a very significant surplus that is used to fund a range of good causes across the State. For example, in 2011 a surplus of just under €232 million was generated by the lottery. Indications are that both national lottery sales and funding for good causes achieved in 2012 will be somewhat less than in 2011. The...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...public service reform and modernisation functions on a statutory basis. Section 4 provides that the Government may determine, by order, a day to be the "appointed day" under the Act. Section 5 provides for the establishment of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the English language and An Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí agus...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...surveys suggest the main fears about migration are about competition for jobs, concern about crime and access to housing. Just before the June 2016 vote to leave the EU, UK unemployment was just under 5% and employment was nearly 75%. Clearly, migrants were not leaving many British people outside the jobs market. Crime rates have been static or falling across the UK for a number of...

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...’s Establishment (Revised Estimate).That a sum not exceeding €3,444,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2015, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Secretary General to the President, for certain other expenses of the President’s Establishment and for certain grants....

Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...the implementation of the various Financial Emergency in the Public Interest Acts, has been reduced by more than 40% in the period since 2009 and that of the Tánaiste and Ministers by more than 35% in the same period. The pay cuts that have been applied will of course follow through into a reduction in the pensions that will be payable to each of them when their time comes to claim...