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Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Apologise.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Would Deputy McGrath be able to make it go away?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy’s question the Public Appointments Service (PAS), in the course of running recruitment competitions for the public service, avails, inter alia, of trained and experienced retired public servants as interviewers, assessors and as decisions arbitrators. At any given time, PAS would have approximately sixty active on their database that would be used from time...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Career Breaks (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 80 and 81 together. The Government is committed to developing a leaner, more efficient Public Service. To this end, the Government has decided to accelerate the reduction in Public Service numbers in order to achieve the previous end 2015 target of 282,500 by end 2014 instead. Greater efficiencies in the way the Public Service is going about its business...

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Deputy against it?

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: You put on your green jersey and voted for the guarantee.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Drill our knees or something like that.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: We might be court-martialed.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Sinn Féin voted for it.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Sinn Féin voted for it on the night.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy likes to blame poor Fianna Fáil for everything.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy voted for that debt.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Sinn Féin has Private Members' time next week.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Gerry Adams hardly had that one.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Savings (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The €1 billion in savings being sought in the period to 2015, which is being considered in the context of the renegotiation of the Croke Park Agreement referred to by the Deputy, is to be found from the Exchequer pay and pensions bill and has been included in the budgetary arithmetic. The exact savings in each year will obviously be influenced by the precise package of measures...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay and Pensions Expenditure (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The figures set out in the following table are as notified by Departments and Offices. Note that pay and pension payments in a given month are a function of the number of pay and pension recipients in that month and the number of payment dates during the month. The timing of non-core or lump sum payments can also affect the comparability of data for periods that are shorter than a year....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 310 and 311 together. The Deputy will be aware that negotiations on an extension to the Public Service Agreement 2010 – 2014 are currently underway aimed at achieving savings of €1billion in the public service pay and pensions bill by end 2015. It would not be appropriate to comment on possible future implementation arrangements whilst those...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I refer the Deputy to my previous response on this issue in PQs No: 3710/13 and No: 3711/13 answered on Tuesday, 29th January, 2013 . Significant progress has been made in developing my proposals for the regulation of lobbying. The consultation process undertaken on this commitment was based on the OECD Principles for Transparency and Integrity in lobbying which recommend that it may be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Programme for Government contains a clear commitment that all public bodies would take due note of equality and human rights in carrying out their functions. The State and its bodies must, of course, comply with all provisions of equality legislation in the development and delivery of policies and services. It is the responsibility of individual Ministers and their officials to manage...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The public works contracts include a clause on pay and conditions of employment which require the main contractor to ensure that all those employed on the works (including those employed by sub-contractors) are paid in accordance with the Registered Employment Agreement (Construction Industry wages and conditions of employment). This is enforced through a number of measures which include:- -...