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Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: This year is nearly done.

Supplementary Estimate for Public Services: Motion (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2013:Vote 39 — Health Service Executive (Supplementary Estimate).

Supplementary Estimate for Public Services: Referral to Select Committee (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2013, the Supplementary Estimate be referred to the Select sub-Committee on Health, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(c) and (6)(a) and 159(3), which shall report back to the Dáil by no later than 12th December:Vote 39 — Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question the following table outlines the costs incurred by my Department, and those bodies under my remit, since the formation of this Government. Department Oireachtas Member Plaintiff Cost Ombudsman Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill Standards in public Office Commission €97,772.70 Public Expenditure and Reform Deputy Joan Collins Minister for Finance and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Directives (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question I can confirm that there are no EU directives relating to my Department that have yet to be transposed into Irish law with a deadline date having passed.

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

Brendan Howlin: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 177, Standing Order 131 is modified to permit an instruction to the committee on the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013, that it has power to make provision in the Bill for a new Part 7A in relation to sick leave remuneration, empowering the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to make regulations...

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

Brendan Howlin: I told the Deputy about this in September.

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

Brendan Howlin: I have not been idle since then.

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

Brendan Howlin: We are not attacking them.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Discuss it at the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy McGrath has done a bit of jumping himself.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: We are in mid-December of this year.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: It will build more than the Deputy's party built.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.

Estimates for Public Services 2013 (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move the following Supplementary Estimate: Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary)That a supplementary sum not exceeding €219,000,000 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 Health Service Executive and certain other services administered by the...

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

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has a brass neck.

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

Brendan Howlin: I will do my best to address the real issues raised by Deputies. Deputy Fleming, in his opening comments, said he was supportive of the approach and of saving the money, but he was against this proposal. He willed the end but denied the means, in what is now becoming a feature of Fianna Fáil, in that it is for and against most things. Deputy Fleming raised a number of issues with...

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

Brendan Howlin: -----which I consider reasonable in all the circumstances. There are two levels. There is the sick leave issue and, bluntly, as I have said repeatedly, the volume of sick leave in the public service is not sustainable. It is costing €500 million this year. It is all right to have a little rant about these things, and some people have the recorded rant.

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

Brendan Howlin: I listened carefully to what the Deputy said so he might listen to me. There is a requirement for those of us who want to have a future for the public service, and to have decent quality public services, to have regard for the norms that apply across the working environment and to try to make these adjustments. That is why we engaged with all the public sector unions and why we have taken a...

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

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy might listen.