Results 18,721-18,740 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: No, BLs as opposed to SCs.
- 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: Yes, lodge cases. Their lawyers will get discovery of whatever they want.
- 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 move amendment No. 25: In page 21, line 1, to delete "that".This is a minor technical amendment to the first line on page 2 to correct a typographical error.
- 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: An order for interim relief may provide for reinstatement, re-engagement or continuation of the employee's contract of employment. I am advised by the Office of the Attorney General that, in all cases, there is a continuing contract of employment in place pending the determination of a case for redress. The employee will continue to be employed until the final determination of 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: That has nothing to do with 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: As the Deputy knows-----
- 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 is my area, inasmuch as it is part of the reform agenda published in 2011.
- 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: Okay.
- 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 merging of all of the labour rights bodies to make them more efficient.
- 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 would like to say two things in response to the Deputy. First, I am alarmed to hear that there was a delay of the magnitude he suggested. Part of the reform agenda involves the introduction of more efficiencies in this area. Obviously, that is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. Second, the case mentioned by the Deputy once more underscores 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: We will examine the Deputy's second set of proposals on Report Stage. It is not before us now. The amendment before the committee relates to the details of the narrow level of reporting that is provided for. We might be able to capture it on a statistical basis. For example, we might be able to provide information on the number of people who have made a report to the confidential...
- 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 appreciate that. I just wanted to make my position clear.
- 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 not accepting it, 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: I move amendment No. 28: In page 31, to delete lines 10 to 27.This technical amendment is necessitated by recent legislative developments. Schedule 4 to the Bill consists of a list of amendments to a number of sectoral Acts containing protected disclosure-type provisions. This amendment merely updates that list.
- 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: Can the Deputy explain his difficulty 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: Yes.
- 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 sorry. I have lost the Deputy. What does he have a difficulty with?
- 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 move amendment No. 29: In page 38, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: " 17 Further Education and Training Act 2013 (No. 25 of 2013) Section 34 After subsection (3) insert— “(4) This section does not apply to a communication that is a protected disclosure within the meaning of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014.”. ”.
- 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: Yes.
- 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 amendments to various Acts provided for in this Schedule will simply ensure a discloser or whistleblower is given the generally stronger protections that are available under this legislation. At the same time, they will ensure the protections available in the sectoral Acts will be unaffected in the unlikely event that the disclosure does not fall within the meaning of this legislation....