Results 17,701-17,720 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Rather than just give the Deputy the figures for health I will see if I can disaggregate them better and get those to her. The next point in the series of points made by Deputy McDonald was on her dislike of the provision of enabling legislation of this sort. I accept her comments that there is nothing personal involved in that. I believe it is a more democratic way of doing it in that we...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: And all the fairly exhaustive legislative protection that is in place to support-----
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: -----women in pregnancy. As I said, it is my intention that the current position of the public service that we are progressive and model employers will continue in regard to that. The fundamental question asked by the Deputy is in terms of what happens after two years when one loses a point. One has had three months on full pay, three months on half pay and the related pay floor...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It is something I will reflect on in regard to the regulations. We cannot have a situation where somebody can be sick forever and on half pay or on rehabilitation pay. The idea is that we would come to make some discernment in regard to it. I do not think that is the issue about which the Deputy is talking. She referred to an example where it might not be 24 months but 30 months or a...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy comes in here to share his stress.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is very successful.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I went through them in the Deputy's absence.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy makes a fair point about stress. I do not want to be flippant about it. Stress is a real issue for many public representatives. I assure the House that I have never had a more challenging job than the position I have held for the last two and a half years. That is true of whole sectors of the public service. People in my Department and in every front-line delivery system were...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, to delete lines 23 to 32, to delete page 4 and in page 5, to delete lines 1 to 7 and substitute the following:"(b) by substituting the following for the definition of "public service body":" 'public service body' means, other than for the purposes of Parts 6A and 7A—(a) the Civil Service, (b) the Garda Síochána, (c) a local authority within...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has made that point before.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is done already.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: They are all done.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I will go through all of these amendments after the Deputy has spoken on them.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I advise the Deputy that we are back on Report Stage.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I wanted to check that point and advise the Deputy accordingly.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I apologise to the House. My officials have just been notified that on the costings I provided to Deputies, the costs are fine but the percentage days lost need to be redone. I have asked my officials to redo that and we will send copies immediately to Deputy Sean Fleming. I will also send it to the Deputies who were in the House earlier and are absent now. I wall also send it to the...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I will resume with the rest when I come back in.