Results 7,741-7,760 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: By working 30 hours extra a year.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: The Senator knows they have all been waived.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: That is not true.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I will.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: It does not specify any group.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Yes, but it does not specify any group.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: The biggest teachers' union in the country has provided for those.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: It is the reverse of that. That is the enabling power to give it to teachers. Without that section I would not be able to restore it.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: The Senator should get the basic facts rights.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I thank all Senators for their contributions, passionate and otherwise. Most people in this House speak with passion and conviction and believe what they say. I listened with great interest to the views of all Senators. I thank Senator Mooney for his kind comments. It is interesting that sometimes the Fianna Fáil position is that everything we have done is wrong and awful and...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: There are several plans to do that, for example, I have agreed with the Minister for Health to have an attraction allowance to get midwives because they are particularly scarce.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: In terms of the actual recruitment of nurses, there are 750-----
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: There are no semantics about it. Whether we recruit them domestically or have to bring them in from abroad, as long as we get them-----
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: The Senator spoke about Garda pay and gave a figure. The starting rate for a garda now is €25,745 in year one, going up in 12 months to €28,000 and 12 months later to €29,834. That does not take account of quite generous allowances, particularly shift allowances and other allowances that gardaí have which very significantly supplement their pay from the beginning....
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: This is the starting rate for anybody starting in An Garda Síochána. That is the basic pay, not taking account of allowances. In respect of pensions, one of the first things I did was to create a single pension scheme for all public servants, including Members of the Oireachtas and judges. Every public servant recruited after 1 January 2013 is part of a single pension scheme....
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: -----relate to 2013.Irish teachers are paid, on average, 17% above the OECD median. OECD countries are the most developed in the world. I just want to put that on record. As a former teacher, I certainly do not think teachers are overpaid. I think they earn their keep. It is a very demanding job and has become much more demanding since my time in the classroom. We have been very...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I am determined to maintain pay rates so that we do not lose that. I will move on and get through everybody's points if possible. A question was asked about side deals done in the Haddington Road process. I am responsible for the formal negotiation of the pay agreement. I negotiated two agreements, namely, the Haddington Road agreement and, latterly, the Lansdowne Road agreement. That is...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Let me answer the question in my own way.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: If Senator Craughwell wants to go to a court of law, he can put on his wig. I will attend as a witness and he can put me on the stand. I listened to the Senator and I want to answer his question. It is absolutely fanciful, as the Senator knows, to think that we could collapse FEMPI. Is the emergency on or off? That is a black-and-white question. We are emerging from the emergency. We...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: If Senator Craughwell is not interested in listening to me, I will stop talking but I am trying to answer the questions as honestly as I can. I do so through the Chair and try not to be heckled. I could not present proposals to this House to say that the emergency is over, that FEMPI is ended and that I must find said €2.2 billion. In fact, it would be more than €2.2 billion...