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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Care of the Elderly Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government manages the Seniors Alert Scheme which encourages community support for vulnerable older people in our communities by providing grant assistance towards the purchase and installation of personal monitored alarms.  Therefore, this question is more appropriate for my colleague the Minister for Environment, Community and Local...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Ticket Sales (10 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: Under the National Lottery Act 2013 the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has no function in relation to the operation of the lottery.  The Act requires the National Lottery Regulator to monitor and enforce compliance by the operator with the Act and with the terms and conditions of the licence granted to the operator.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (10 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: The Public Appointments Service is the independent, centralised recruitment agency for the civil and public service. As the the Public Appointments Service can only discuss the progress of an application with the individual concerned, I have requested that they communicate directly with the candidate.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authority Members (10 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has no function in this matter. However I understand, as the elected councillors of all Local Authorities is a matter of public record, that the person referred to is a councillor in Dún Laoghaire / Rathdown County Council.

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the two Deputies who contributed to the debate and I will try to deal with the issues raised. Having raised the issue with the Tánaiste earlier, Deputy Sean Fleming makes much of this being the first debate on the Estimates. However, on the day of the budget, 14 October 2014, we published the comprehensive expenditure report, which laid out the expenditure allocation to every...

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I do not know whether Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett attended the meeting of the Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government where members forensically examined the intentions of the Minister. We have allocated €1.3 billion in Exchequer funding over the coming three years. In addition, private financing will be sourced for a PPP package of €300 million...

Migrant Earned Regularisation Bill 2015: First Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: No.

Standing Orders: Motion (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 99(1)(a), the Committee on Procedure and Privileges recommends that the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business are hereby amended by the adoption of the following as an additional Standing Order: Discharge from Committee '107J. (1) Where a member of a Committee which is conducting a Part 2 inquiry contravenes a direction...

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I move the following Revised Estimates: Vote 1 — President’s Establishment (Revised Estimate).That a sum not exceeding €3,444,000 be 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 Secretary General to the President, for certain other expenses of...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: This is a speech.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: He was away that day.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Higgins does not believe in government.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: Most pensionable public servants recruited before the commencement of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme are required as a condition of appointment to be members of (i) a "Main Superannuation Scheme" which provides for the member's own pension benefits and (ii) an associated Spouses' and Children's Scheme which covers pensions for spouses, civil...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Ombudsman Staff (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I am advised that the Office of the Ombudsman carefully monitors the numbers of complaints it has on hand as well as the timelines required for concluding its examination of cases.  I am informed that the Ombudsman is taking steps to ensure that the majority of those who make complaints to his Office have their cases concluded in a very short timeframe, while at the same...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Professional Fees (5 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: Sections 9 and 10 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Act 2009 provides for the making of regulations by the Minister for Health, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, to reduce the amount or the rate of payments to health professionals in respect of any services that they render to or on behalf of a Health...

Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: From the Seanad (4 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are minor technical amendments. Amendment No. 1 provides clarity around the provision in section 12(4)(f) and adds after the word "been" the words "(whether before or after the passing of this Act)". The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel advised that in order to clarify that this provision applies to whether the person was a designated public official before or...

Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: From the Seanad (4 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I made this amendment at the request of the Standards in Public Office Commission. The Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 provides the commission with authority to delegate its function to staff of the commission. The commission itself is strongly of the view that to avoid any possibility of future legal challenges, the question of its powers of delegation should be put beyond doubt by the...

Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: From the Seanad (4 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I will clarify that with the Standards in Public Office Commission directly but our understanding is that it would be a formal delegation.

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: He has a megaphone for that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Appointments to State Boards (4 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question I can confirm that no senior civil servants who have retired in my Department since 2011 have been appointed to a State Board under my aegis following their retirement.