Results 18,661-18,680 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It would help the flow of the debate if I could answer those questions first, or I will lose track.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I am in the hands of the committee. I just thought I would be able to do this. If I lose anything, members can come back to me.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: That is the investigation procedure GSOC already applies.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: That applies to the investigation, not the making of the disclosure or the protections that flow from it. I apologise. I should not be answering questions yet.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I will deal with those matters first as they are the simplest ones to deal with. The public interest reference relates to the investigation by GSOC of a complaint it receives where it appears to that body to be in the public interest to carry one out. That is the way it deals with complaints. The reference I have made to the public interest refers to affording the protections under the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy was quoting somebody else, but I am mindful of what Mr. Guerin said about GSOC. If it is going to be the recipient for this, we must all be confident that it is the right place and that it is properly equipped and structured to do the job. That is another day's work. I agree strongly with Deputy Fleming that crafting the legislation does not mean the job is done. The other...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It might be stand out like a sore thumb for the rest of it, but-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: So be it.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Some of the Deputy's colleagues would not be too keen on his amendment because it would rule out whistleblowers going directly to him or to some of his colleagues.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I can do that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: To clarify matters, we are not amending section 91 of the Garda Síochána Bill.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Correct.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: In a case of death.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: One would not capture-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It could be a complaint about sick leave.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I do not think that is-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I will check that for the Deputy.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: There are two questions there and I will answer the second one first, in the affirmative. I have said that the new insertion into the 2005 Act is crafted to be in tandem and consistent with the Bill as drafted, which is why it is drafted in that way. It is our intention - there was a formal Government decision on this - to make GSOC the recipient of complaints or disclosures. If I can...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I do not have it in front of me, no.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Fleming has it in front of him.