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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30394/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 409. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of public sector workers who are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in her Department. [30404/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30402/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 476. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30406/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Recruitment (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 488. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30396/14]

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: What this subsection is about is clear. Subsection (3) states that the agency shall provide project management services in relation to any acquisition or disposal of any interest or any asset of the designated body if the Minister who is the relevant Minister requires it to do so. Let us consider the designated bodies. The Electricity Supply Board, Bord na Móna, Coillte Teoranta,...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I support the amendment. It is not good enough to confine this measure to people making declarations if they believe there are conflicts of interest. The Government voted down the idea that representatives of ordinary people should be considered for membership of the board. This has left all of these other categories of investment, treasury management, risk management and corporate...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: We are seeking the deletion from the Bill of the part of section 12 which states:The Chairperson and the Chief Executive shall not be required to give account before a Committee for any matter which is or has been or may at a future time be the subject of proceedings before a court or tribunal in the State.I wish the Minister of State would leave aside the briefing notes.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: He should talk directly to us in the language that we and our people understand.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister of State should tell us how he believes this measure could not be used by the chairperson or chief executive of the agency to avoid coming before an Oireachtas committee on issues in respect of which they do not wish to be accountable at a particular time. The Minister has seen what is going on between the Committee of Public Accounts and individuals who were at one stage in the...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I want to sum up now briefly but importantly just the same. This is absolutely ridiculous. The Minister of State has just provided a menu in a potential situation that could arise. People in charge of public agencies who should be responsible to the Dáil could bring about a situation amounting to ducks and drakes up to and back from the High Court and so on. We have seen this with...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: The only pensioners that will be qualified will be those sitting on a pension pot of €10 million or €20 million.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I move amendment No. 3:In page 19, to delete lines 26 to 44, and in page 20, to delete lines 1 to 13.This amendment seeks to delete: “The Chairperson and the Chief Executive shall not be required to give account before a Committee for any matter which is or has been or may at a future time be the subject of proceedings before a court or tribunal in the State.” This is...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: That the Minister of State will not be accepting the amendment is not surprising. For his information, Stalin had nothing to do with socialism. We call that system Stalinism - the horrific totalitarian perversion of the great revolution of the Russian working class and peasantry when they overthrew a horrific dictatorship. The attitude to this proposal is not at all surprising. The...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I move amendment No. 2:In page 12, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:"(n) advocacy for groups who have been detrimentally affected by the crash of the property bubble and bail out of the financial system.".I realise that the Government Deputies probably have a lot to talk about tonight, but they will have to talk elsewhere since we are in the throes of very serious business here...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: When the Minister of State introduced this Bill, he set out how it involved the transfer of some €6.9 billion from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to the Ireland strategic investment fund, a major proposal by any standard. It is a major proposal in the realm of finance. The Bill was taken on Committee Stage in the Select Sub-Committee on Finance. I would like the Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said that the Economic Management Council met three times in the period we asked about. It comprises the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Considering that the new Tánaiste bitterly criticised the workings of that committee and the dictatorial powers that she thought it took to itself, does he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----or an opportunity for a debate in the Dáil on that?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: When?

Appointment of Tánaiste: Announcement by An Taoiseach (8 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Lads, keep clapping, you might make it yet.