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Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I will go through it with the Deputy.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I will explain about the PRSI recounting, but Deputy Fleming knows about it.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: There has been an outcome of 8.2% in a single year.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: It is 8.2%.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The target was 8.6%; the outcome, 8.2%.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Thanks to us.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Sean Fleming's party brought them in.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy's party gave them to them. They negotiated and signed off on them. He has a brass neck.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Martin's former colleagues are collecting them as well-----

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: -----such as the former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and all the rest of them.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I abolished the top level appointments commission terms which Fianna Fáil brought in.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: That was your invention.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 29 and 32 together. The specific details in relation to the school in County Limerick referenced by the Deputies are a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills. Appropriate professional advice is employed to administer public works contracts and the prices returned in a tender must be considered in the context of each tender...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Redeployment (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The person referred to is currently employed by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and consideration is currently being given to an application to have her re-graded to the position of Clerical Officer. If this application is successful, the CSO propose to arrange to have her post included on the Public Appointments Service (PAS) Resource Panel of Civil Service staff, which has been put in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (6 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 38 and 39 together. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce new legislation to protect small building subcontractors that have been denied payments from bigger companies. In this regard, my colleague Minister of State Brian Hayes is working with Senator Feargal Quinn to develop the Senator’s private member’s Construction...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (6 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The Local Authorities are subject to national procurement rules in the same manner as any other public body. The question of governance in the local authority sector to ensure, inter alia , that proper value-for-money safeguards and other procedural rules are being duly observed in the area of procurement is proper to my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is a disgrace.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to share time with Deputies Varadkar and O'Dowd.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“has confidence in the Government as it deals with the current economic crisis in as fair a manner as possible, while prioritising economic recovery and job creation.”It is usual when a motion of confidence is moved in this House that there is some expectation that it...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Sinn Féin is a party that complains about political decisions but has shown little or no capacity to make any decisions. Its policies are the stuff of fantasy. We can provide the policy document.