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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motions (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: Yes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motions (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: Yes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motions (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: I understand the Revenue Commissioners are in discussion with the Data Protection Commissioner in terms of the enabling legislation, that there is not a dispute and that there should not be a difficulty in this regard. Deputy McGrath is right in saying that it requires compliance on both sides. It is worth saying in regard to this standalone agreement, that this is a requirement which the...

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: Who said that?

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: To be fair to the Minister, the fact is the rationalisation is happening and these agencies are being merged on an administrative basis. That is the policy decision of the Government. In fairness to the Minister, he requires his colleagues to get on with the task of making sure it happens. The Deputy has given me this platform today and I am sure they will be listening in.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Grades Review (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: The task of the Minister and the Department is to set the general policy in this regard across the public sector. However, specific areas such as local government, the Defence Forces and the Garda Síochána have historically had different grading structures. This is a crucial issue. The Minister has put on record that the review that will take place this year. Of the 30,000...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: I thank the Deputy for his intervention. The House has been very patient about the Construction Contracts Bill and Opposition Deputies, in particular, have been very patient with me with regard to not bringing the Bill to Committee Stage. It is my intention to do so in a matter of weeks. I apologise for not being more speedy on this. However, even if that Bill had been passed by this...

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: As the Deputy is aware, the radical streamlining of State bodies is a key deliverable of the public service reform plan published in November 2011. This streamlining included 48 rationalisation measures to be implemented by the end of 2012, as well as a further 46 critical reviews to take place by the end of June 2012. Details of the bodies involved are set out in Appendices IIa and IIb of...

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: Consistency.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: Does the Deputy have a question on any agency?

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: I can give the Deputy an update on any agency he wishes.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: I will give the reply to the Deputy afterwards. I presume I am entitled to do that, although that might be a presumption too far. This came from the public service reform plan. We said we wished to proceed with the 47, but we retained one and there is a reason for that. On the remaining 46, we told the Departments to get on with the task of introducing legislation where that is required....

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: The great prize from these talks is ultimately the creation of a sustainable public sector in the future which can fund itself as a result of the taxation we bring in.

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: The Deputy knows as well as I do-----

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: The Deputy knows as well as I do that the people at the top of the public sector, the crowd she would like to put against the wall, are those who have suffered the biggest cuts as a result of the decisions taken. That will continue. I am not sure whether Deputy McDonald deliberately ignored what I said earlier-----

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: -----or if she chose to put it to one side, but that will continue. It is a fundamental part of these talks that there will be an equality of contribution in terms of potential reductions to pay and pensions. That has been the case with this Government and it will continue in the talks and into the future.

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 41 together. The National Procurement Service, NPS, is responsible for the collection of the annual procurement statistics for all supplies, services and works contract notices that are advertised on e-tenders, which are above the EU threshold levels within any given year. It should be noted that below threshold statistics are not collected. While the...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: I apologise for the verbose reply.

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: Deputy McDonald made a number of valuable points. On the latter issue of social contracts, I can confirm to the House that I will bring proposals to Government shortly effectively to demand that a percentage of people who will work on public construction contracts will be ones who have suffered unemployment as a result of the downturn in the construction industry. We have done much work in...

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Hayes: If a question is not asked, we will move on to the next one.