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Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: They are all in school.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: In welcoming the Finance Bill 2012 introduced yesterday by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, I want to expand on two measures — the special assignee relief programme and the foreign earnings deduction — it contains to help business and to promote the Government's key objective, the creation of jobs. The special assignee relief programme, SARP, is intended to reduce the cost to...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: Like Deputies.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: Within the last six months the Office of Public Works has employed six seasonal drainage operatives in the western region. Additional seasonal staff will be employed as the year progresses, namely, drainage operatives and guide/information officers for visitor sites.

Written Answers — Coast Guard Service: Coast Guard Service (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I would refer the Deputy to my reply to his question for written answer on 19 January 2012. The position remains that the Chief State Solicitor's Office is in ongoing correspondence with the vendor's solicitors to complete the legal formalities for the conveyance of the site, and with the solicitors for the owner of the sewage treatment plant, in relation to the Grant of Easement for...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: As Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), I can advise the Deputy that the OPW has no role or function in relation to the operation and maintenance of surface water drainage infrastructure. Under section 31 of the Water Services Act 2007, local authorities, are responsible for the operation and maintenance of wastewater infrastructure. The matter raised...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: It is understood that the Deputy is referring to the employment of drainage maintenance operatives for seasonal works on the River Maine in County Kerry. The scheduling of seasonal employment is still under consideration. Otherwise, the position remains unchanged since my reply to the Deputy's previous question, No. 263 of 31 January 2012.

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I thank colleagues for their positive comments on the Bill. A lovely story was told by Dave Allen in the wonderful series he made in the late 1970s and early 1980s in which he described what it had been like to grow up in Waterford city. He said that if ever he was a bold boy his mother would say that if he did not go to sleep the "scissorman" will come and get him. He was a guy who...

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: To return to what that Young Fine Gael member in UCD said, she has a point when she said that much of the IMF agenda is the structural reform agenda that this country must take ownership of and change if we are to develop a better economy for all of us. I also agree with the Senator Reilly about the developing economies; that is why it is important that we keep development aid strong. It is...

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I welcome the opportunity to address the Seanad on the Second Stage of the Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011. The purpose of the Bill, which is very short, is to enable Ireland to accept an amendment to the articles of agreement of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, which are incorporated in existing legislation, namely, the Bretton Woods Acts 1957 to 2011. The...

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: We will try to obtain copies for the Senators. The main objective of the IMF, which was established following the Bretton Woods conference in 1945 and which Ireland joined in 1957, is to support global financial stability in the interest of all its members. Since the onset of the global financial crisis, the fund has played a key role in helping to restore stability to the international...

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: All of the copies of the speech are distributed with the health warning, "check against delivery", and this is a warning for Senators and the media. I apologise for the missing page.

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: The second section provides that, for the purpose of each regular election of executive directors, the board of governors, by an 85% majority of the total voting power, may increase or decrease the number of executive directors. The effect of this provision is that the existing possibility, whereby the size of the board may be adjusted, will continue to apply to the restructured board. The...

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I am sorry, a Leas-Chathaoirligh,-----

Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I will do my best. This has been a most interesting and useful debate, regardless on one's perspective on the Croke Park agreement. It has been a very useful exercise and I genuinely thank all the contributors. Our public sector is not big by international standards. Those in many European countries are much bigger. We are engaging in very substantial change. Approximately 12% in total...

Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: We can have a game of semantics or a genuine debate on what is happening. What is happening is that since last autumn, through the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the sectoral teams, we have been working on plans. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, will be submitting a report to the Cabinet next week setting out their extent. The plan in question was initiated by the former...

Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I apologise. I wish to put it on the record of the House because it is important for colleagues to hear it. In 2008 the total public sector pay and pension bill was just short of €20 billion, with €17 billion in pay and €2.3 billion on pensions. By 2015 under our estimation, the pay bill will have gone down from €17 billion to €14 billion while the pensions bill will have gone up...

Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I suspect people are listening to me. That is the problem.

Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Hayes: I thank the Leader for the extra time. The point was not picked up in the speeches of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, in the Dáil that our task in 2012 and 2013 is to reduce overtime payments. I believe the figure is 10% for those years. It is a little known fact. People will be working longer and harder because...