Results 261-280 of 742 for garda speaker:Brendan Howlin

Other Questions: Ministerial Pensions (12 May 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...of senior politicians, including former Ministers and Taoisigh. Obviously, there are many in the public sphere in receipt of analogous pensions, including senior judges, senior members of An Garda Síochána, senior administrators in the public service and senior academics. It is important that pensions comprise an important part of the package available to get people to work in...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (12 May 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...issued to the officers of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. I have also made arrangements for the participation of the associations representing public servants in the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána. In addition to the formal talks process, I have met and am continuing to engage with the representatives of public service pensioners where matters under...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Targets (12 May 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...sector last year will go towards providing 900 new classroom teachers, 480 new resource teachers and 220 new special needs assistants and so on. Last September this Government oversaw the first recruitment of new gardaí since 2009. To date, 300 new recruits have entered the Garda College, with a further 250 new gardaí to be recruited this year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (12 May 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...in mind myself. We will engage with the public service unions. Throughout my dealings with them over four and a bit years, they have been reasonable and understanding. Every public servant - each garda, teacher, civil servant and local government worker - has a vested interest in our country recovering so we can have quality public services and a place in which families can thrive and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (12 May 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...citizens, and the new staff management arrangements, where effectively managed, will help to underpin that.   In terms of recruitment in 2015, there is and will be a considerable level of recruitment across the Public Service, including in Health, Education and An Garda Síochaná.  The timing and nature of the recruitment is a matter...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (28 Apr 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...falling due on May 1, arrangements are in place for payments falling due to be made one day earlier on April 30. For the Deputy's information, I have set out the public service bodies serviced by the PSSC: An Garda Síochána; Commission for Public Service Appointments; Courts Service; Credit Union Restructuring Board; Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...servants to keeping the cost of the public service paybill at sustainable levels and the recovery has facilitated the reinvestment by the Government in 2015 of some €300m in frontline services mainly in Health, Education and An Garda. The  FEMPI Acts govern the €2.2bn direct reductions in public service remuneration and pensions. Notwithstanding our...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Data (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...here. At budget time last October I also made provision for an additional 1,700 teachers, special needs assistants and resource teachers, as well as additional front-line staff in the health service and 300 new Garda recruits. I expect many of these to come into the public service during the course of this year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Data (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...years is that when there is a pressure point, it is not always about a need for more resources but for proper analysis of how we deploy the resources we have available. The Deputy mentioned An Garda Síochána. The Garda Inspectorate has conducted a comprehensive review which has showed up some shocking things and major reform of An Garda Síochána is under way because...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...bill must be maintained at sustainable levels. The recovery has facilitated reinvestment, as I have said, in some front line services. In 2015 some €300 million will be reinvested in health, education and An Garda Síochána. The FEMPI Acts deliver about €2.2 billion in reduced public service remuneration and pensions. Notwithstanding our improving economy,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...servants to keeping the cost of the public service paybill at sustainable levels and the recovery has facilitated the reinvestment by the Government in 2015 of some €300m in frontline services mainly in Health, Education and An Garda. The  FEMPI Acts govern the €2.2bn direct reductions in public service remuneration and pensions. Notwithstanding our...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Health, in particular.  Indeed, most recently, at Budget time in October, I made additional financial provision for 1,700 new teachers, Special Needs Assistants and resource teachers, as well as additional front line staff in Health and 300 new Garda recruits.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Health, in particular.  Indeed, most recently, at Budget time in October, I made additional financial provision for 1,700 new teachers, Special Needs Assistants and resource teachers, as well as additional front line staff in Health and 300 new Garda recruits.

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2015, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments, the Standards in Public Office Commission, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (24 Feb 2015)

Brendan Howlin: The Freedom of Information Act 2014 came into effect on 14 October 2014.  In line with the Programme for Government, the Act provides for the extension of FOI to An Garda Síochána for its administrative records relating to human resources, or finance or procurement matters, subject to security exemptions. In accordance with Section 1(3)(b) of the FOI Act 2014, in the case...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (19 Feb 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...with an open mind. I have had good ideas in Opposition that were seldom accepted. In the 1990s, I spent some time as my party's spokesperson on justice and produced very good legislation on a Garda ombudsman and a Garda authority, all of which was voted down. I knew go dtiocfadh ár lá, however, and that they would come into being some day. Therefore, I always come into this...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...not made any provision for returns or dividends from any such sale. It will be a matter to be determined in due course. The Deputy asked particularly about Vote B5, the legal costs from the Garda case. The advice of the Attorney General was sound since we won the case. I do not want to be discordant about it, but I must say it was rather unusual to win a case on all grounds, as we...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Feb 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...make decisions at front-line level, there are overarching issues in respect of which we have taken a whole-of-government approach. I refer, for example, to the recommencement of recruitment to the Garda Síochána, the recruitment of 1,700 additional teachers, resource teachers and special needs assistants, SNAs, and the appointment of health sector specialists. Total public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Feb 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA).  The HRA, in the Government's view, sets the parameters for pay policy in the public service for until July 2016.  The pay and conditions of members of An Garda Siochana come within the ambit of public service pay policy in this regard.  The pay reforms in the period from 2009 to 2015, encompassing both the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Feb 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...the Deputy refers - Health and Education, and also in the Justice sector.  Most recently, in Budget 2015, I made provision: -for some 1,700 teachers, SNA and resource teachers; and - for a further 100 Garda recruits in 2015, on top of an additional 200 in late 2014; In addition, targeted recruitment into the Civil Service which began in 2014, is continuing...